The whole planet has heard of him and there is no one who has remained indifferent to his honesty and modesty. All of them are said to be the archetype of politicians for prime ministers, but also as a man with a big heart and open views, when the government did not corrupt them.Jose Pepe Mujica advocates the theory that power does not change people, but only reveals their true face. Mujica's face radiates a special energy, despite the strong wrinkles and scars of life.The world began to see the "poorest president in the world" as the richest man in the world, and the most powerful - the one who managed to reveal the biggest secret “
- The secret of happiness is to live in accordance with your own values and attitudes. Be your own, and don't try to impose your criteria on others. I don’t expect others to live like me. I want to respect the freedom of the people, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others do not share that opinion - Jose Mujica once explained.He refused to retire and for the ninth decade he lived modestly, in peace and unity with nature, on a farm in the suburbs of Montevideo. While others philosophize - he lives his philosophy and says he never looks back.Nevertheless, his biography is composed of important lessons for humanity. The first is that it is not easy to change the world, but that it may be worth it, and it is related to the darkest part of its past.
Emir Kusturica says that, when he heard about the president who drives a tractor and repairs the house himself, he immediately thought that he wanted to make a film about him, about the favorite president of Uruguay. He filmed it at the very end of Jose Mujica's presidential term, during a series of philosophical conversations about politics, beauty, the meaning of life… entitled "Pepe, a sublime life"
Jose Mujica was born in 1935 in Montevideo, in a family of European immigrants - his father was of Basque and his mother of Italian origin. He studied law, but was still more drawn to politics. At a time when the whole of Latin America was pulsing under the repression of the regime, he sided with the guerrilla Movement of National Liberation - Tupamaros. They were inspired by the Cuban revolution, robbed banks and helped the poor, defying the corrupt Uruguayan authorities and waiting for an opportunity for a coup…
They were in disgrace, arrested and tortured. Muhika himself was wounded six times in that fight, he was imprisoned four times, he escaped from prison twice, and then he was arrested and chained. He spent a total of 13 years in prison, two of them in solitary confinement.
- But man is a very tough species and can work miracles. Most of humanity found solace in the abyss of metaphysical nature in faith in God, some lunatics like me found solace in realizing the dream of freedom - he explained on one occasion.
- Those were difficult, very difficult years. Once in three or four months, my mother would come to visit me. We are beaten, distorted, we stink of burnt blood… I spent two years without bathing, neither I nor my friends, so we learned how to wash ourselves with a handkerchief soaked in water… Those years they taught me to talk to the one I carry inside , I talked to ants, walls, stars… The loneliness that was imposed on me made me ask myself questions, think about everything and that changed my personality. It can be said that it was the most fruitful period of my life in which I realized that the one who embarks on changing the world, the lowest price he pays for it, is to go to prison - Pepe said.
- The pain I experienced cannot annul anything. No one can erase it. But everyone must learn to heal their wounds and turn to the future. I see life as a path that stretches in front of us. Tomorrow is really the only thing that matters. If you spend your life trying to collect debts that no one wants to pay, you have wasted your life.
His "tomorrow" arrived in 1985 when he was finally released.
"If you allow me, as an older man I would give some advice to this wonderful young world." "You know, life can set many traps, inflict many blows, we can have a thousand failures, in life, in love, in social struggle ... But we will find the strength to get up and start again only if we look for that strength. The most beautiful thing about the day is what dawns. Dawn always comes after dark. So, children, don't forget, the only losers are the ones who stopped fighting. "
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