2024-05-04 08:11:35
By ensuring that as long as he can he will continue on the political scene and be “grateful” for everything he has experienced, Jose Mujica, former president of Uruguay and icon on the left, revealed yesterday that he has a tumor in his esophagus with forecast “very committed.”
The 88-year-old former president, who has become a cult character for his austere style and distance from protocols, his progressive ideas and his defense of the planet, reported in a press conference that he learned of the tumor last Friday during a medical check-up.
“It is doubly complex in my case because I have suffered from an immunological disease for more than 20 years that affected, among other things, my kidneys, which creates difficulties for chemotherapy or surgery techniques,” he explained, in relation to the vasculitis that was diagnosed in 2004.
Mujica’s personal doctor, Raquel Panone, indicated that “it is not confirmed” that the tumor is malignant, although “the image is suggestive.”
Your dolphin Yamandu Orsi, favorite according to the polls to become the FA presidential candidate for the October elections, said he was dismayed by the news of the tumor, but encouraged by the life example of his mentor.
Mujica, who had no children, lives with his wife Lucia Topolansky, ex-guerrilla like him and former vice president of Uruguay between 2017 and 2020, on a farm on the outskirts of Montevideo, where he himself takes care of growing vegetables. /AFP
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