Mourners from all corners of Uruguay bid farewell to iconic former President Jose Mujica

MONTEVIDEO: Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay's superior connected Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former PresidentJose Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering person who became an icon of the Latin American left, remembered astir for his humility, elemental manner and ideological earnestness. Thousands of radical mourning the decease of their erstwhile leader, affectionately known arsenic "Pepe," joined the procession arsenic Mujica's flag-covered coffin, borne connected a weapon carriage, made its mode done downtown Montevideo toward the country's parliament implicit the people of 3 hours. Mujica died Tuesday astatine the property of 89 successful his location connected the outskirts of Montevideo, a three-room farmhouse wherever helium lived passim his beingness and during his presidency (2010-2015), successful rejection of Uruguay's opulent statesmanlike mansion. Chants of "Pepe, dear, the radical are with you!" roseate arsenic the cortege passed. Uruguayans lined the sidewalks on the way and applauded from balconies. Uruguay's president, Yamandu Orsi, Mujica's longtime interlocutor and protege from his left-wing Broad Front party, declared Wednesday-to-Friday nationalist days of mourning successful a statesmanlike decree that praised Mujica's "humanist philosophy," closi...