Mujicas mothers parents were extremely poor immigrants from italy. Apr 09, 2015 mujica says that as a young man he was a great reader, spending eight hours a day in libraries because his family could not afford to buy books. Uruguay bids farewell to jose mujica, its pauper president bbc news. Jose pepe mujica ebook by stephen gregory rakuten kobo. Books are important to the former guerrilla fighter who spent a total of years in jail, two of them lying at the bottom of an old horse trough. This autodidact philosopher also had help from teachers along the way, he adds. Jesus was a leftwinger uruguay expresident mujica to rt.
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