Who Is Pepe Mujica?
1. A picture of José “Pepe” Mujica before his imprisonment.
2. An introduction he gives for an interview for a movie called “Human.”
“I am José Mujica. Farmer for a living for the first part of my life. Then, I dedicated myself to fighting for change and improvement in my society. And now, I am in a phase of being President. And tomorrow, like any son of a neighbor, I’ll be a pile of worms and disappear.”
3. Things said by his fellow Tupamaros.
“Man is himself and his circumstances. Here, there were circumstances.”
“I was very young, 30 years ago … we were just a few young guys.”
“Being a Tupamaro is more a feeling than a political decision.”
“A militant is himself, his soul, and his torturer.”
4. A perception.
Pepe Mujica is
the president of my country,
the Switzerland of Latin America,
nothing like Latin America,
everything but Latin America,
an upside-down map of Latin America:
our Punta Carretas Santa Claus.
Pepe Mujica is
a young revolutionary
who deals in killing and dying.
Pepe Mujica is
a newly elected legislator.
He looks like my mother’s ex,
like my sister’s father,
like he was a father to me.
5. An answer.
This is Pepe Mujica.