Mujica is in the terminal phase of cancer under palliative care

The former Uruguayan president announced in January that cancer had spread throughout the body and interrupted the treatment; The wife said that the cure is now to live “in the best way” his last days. The 89 -year -old former Uruguayan president José Pepe Mujica is a terminal esophageal cancer and palliative care to relieve pain, his wife, former vice -president Lucía Topolansky said on Monday on Monday (12/05).

In January, Mujica revealed that cancer, diagnosed last year, had spread to her body and that she would no longer have been treatments.

“I can’t do any biochemical treatment or surgery because my body cannot take it,” he told the Emcqueda newspaper at that moment. “What I ask is that they leave me alone. That no longer ask me for interviews or anything. My cycle is over. Honestly, I’m dying. And the warrior is entitled to his rest.”

According to Topolansky, the cure is now focused in order to live the last part of his life “in the best possible way”.

On medical recommendations, the former president did not participate in the regional elections on last Sunday, in which the left maintained power in the capital, Montevideo.

“I was with him for over 40 years and I will be until the end; that’s what I promised,” said Topolansky.

On Sunday, Uruguayan president Yamandu Orsi, Piccolo De Mujica, asked Privacy to the former Sickman and his family.

“We all have to help ensure that dignity is the key to every phase of life; we should not overload it, we must leave it alone.”

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Mujica has already been defined as the “poorest president in the world” – a label that contested – for giving most of his salary and directing an old scarabeo while he was in charge, from 2010 to 2015. He also won admires for his firm anti -consumer posture.

During their mandate, Uruguay approved several progressive laws, legalizing abortion and gay marriage and becoming the first country in the world to allow the recreational use of marijuana in 2013.

Mujica was a member of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros, a group of far-left guerrilla warfares operating in the 60s and 70s. During this period, 12 years spent in prison, most of the time in isolation.

SF (AFP, OTS)

Source: Terra

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