The desperate attempts of the global left
Recently, Lula, Petro, Boric, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and even the failed Ecuadorian candidate, the Correa supporter Luisa González, visited Mujica's farm. Anticipating his death, they instructed on the steps that the unprotected Uruguayan offspring left by the ex-terrorist will now have to take.
It is likely that some short-sighted individual has bought into the idea that there is a strong alliance among Latin American leftists, but it is not so. They are scared and desperate. With the fall of the wall, they were destroyed for the first time. With woke wings, they resurfaced again, but they are seeing their inevitable destruction coming. Some are already gradually distancing themselves, just look at Luisa González raising a pro-life flag or read certain internal criticisms of the woke ideology.
The national and international left is capitalizing on the death of the ex-Tupamaro. Failed leftists from different regions send condolences, praises, and even return to Uruguayan soil.
The martyrdom surrounding the death of the MPP leader will last several days and it is not surprising: the global left tries to appear united and strengthened in the face of the evident decline it faces: a lost battle against the liberal, conservative, and patriotic tsunami sweeping worldwide, whose only banner is common sense.
Mujica lived the last political campaign but couldn't vote for Mario Bergara
This May 11, with the departmental and municipal elections, the last electoral contest that the ex-guerrilla could experience took place. However, his last vote was for the current president, Yamandú Orsi, in the second round held on November 24, 2024.
[2025 election results in Uruguay]
Last Sunday, in a press conference, the Secretary of the Presidency, Alejandro “Pacha” Sánchez, gave stammering explanations regarding the absence of the Tupamaro leader: «Pepe is fine, um, we all know he has a terminal illness and that, well, that terminal illness has a process and, well, um, we are, uh, waiting for that outcome». He also stated: «today he didn't go to vote because he wasn't feeling well, um, and well, it's part of life».
Mujica's absence in an election should raise attention. Anyone, appealing to logical deductive reasoning, can think of the two existing options: either he was really unwell and couldn't attend or he was already dead. There wasn't a single reporter who quickly asked a question about it. And well, it is public knowledge that lucidity is absent when an envelope passes under the door.
They didn't even take the penalty: the press at the service of the government
Let's recall the football analogy made by the "flamboyant" former Minister of Housing, Cecilia Cairo, after assuming her short and shameful mandate, last March 7:
The president said this is a team and I am with him. And this is the government team. Here are our ministers and with the ministers and the undersecretaries, we are going to play an eleven-a-side match. He will be the ten [Orsi] and poor Pacha will save all the penalties, but we love him. Because that's what he's done so far, they don't leave him alone.
If no one takes a shot, anyone is a good goalkeeper, gentlemen. “El Pacha,” with apparent skill, diverted the focus of the conversation —which was on the seriousness of Mujica not having gone to vote— by pointing out: «Pepe has said he wants to turn 90 and that will be on May 20, so we are on that».
Did the bad luck of Tuesday the 13th fall on the ex-terrorist?
Evidently, Mujica was left wanting to change decades. Two days after the elections, his death was officially announced.
