Comrades crown themselves

We think that every minister, deputy minister, provincial premier and mayor should, before swearing an oath to commit themselves to the service of “our people”, be obliged to study the life of José “Pepe” Mujica, the 40th president of Uruguay.

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Serving from 2010 to 2015, he often drove himself around in his sky-blue 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. His personal residence - his wife's flower farm outside Montevideo, not the presidential palace - was often guarded by only two plainclothes police officers and his famous three-legged dog, Manuela.