It’s a common grumble that politician lifestyle are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay.
José Alberto “Pepe” Mujica Cordano is a Uruguayan politician who served as the 40th President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.
A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 12 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.
He has been described the ” the world’s humblest head of state due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90% (percent) of his US$12,000 monthly salary to charities that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs, has led him to be labeled the poorest president in the world.
I’m called the poorest president; but i don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more; he says.
I may appear to be an eccentric old. But this is a free choice.
