Uruguay's ex-president Jose Mujica, a hero of the left but ailing at 89, has drawn on his last reserves to campaign far and wide for the man seen as his heir apparent ahead of elections Sunday.

Uruguayans go to the polls Sunday with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose Mujica hoping to reclaim the ...

The former president will join the campaign in support of Yamandú Orsi. Luis Lacalle Pou — who cannot run again due to constitutional term limits — is backing Álvaro Delgado ...

Uruguay is undergoing political dynamics similar to those at work in the rest of Latin America: governments swing from one ...

Delgado of outgoing president Luis Lacalle Pou's ruling coalition, and Yamandú Orsi, of the left-wing Frente Amplio coalition ...

A former guerrilla who is now a chrysanthemum farmer, Mr. Mujica, 89, helped spearhead Uruguay’s transformation into the continent’s most socially liberal country. He is battling esophageal ...

By Laurence Blair Reporting from Asunción, Paraguay The small South American nation of Uruguay will hold elections ... among them José Mujica. Support from Mr. Mujica, a folksy, avuncular ...

Homicide rates in Uruguay have risen sharply in recent ... He has backing from leftist icon Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former rebel-turned-president, but also moderate groups who like his business ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Voters in the small South ... occurred under the tenure of former President José “Pepe” Mujica, an eccentric former guerrilla and present-day chrysanthemum ...

Leftist history teacher and centre-right veterinarian set for run-off vote next month, according to pollsters.

He is seen as the understudy of highly popular ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica. Mujica ... in 2020 when Uruguay, like much of the world, went into Covid-19 lockdown. Being government spokesman ...