Mujica Stands in Solidarity With Catalan Political Prisoners

[Judi Lynn]

Jose Mujica, Uruguay, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @oscarperis

Published 24 December 2020

The Uruguayan leftist leader stressed that political dialogue is the only way out when "times are tough."

Uruguay's ex-President of Uruguay Jose Mujica expressed his solidarity with the Catalan pro-independence activists who are imprisoned in Barcelona, Spain.

During a virtual meeting with the The Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) leader Oriol Junqueras, Mujica sent his solidarity to all imprisoned politicians and affirmed his support for the Catalans to negotiate a political solution to the conflict with the Spanish State.

At this meeting, Uruguay's former president also told the Catalans that he is "very close to all those who are in jail for political reasons.”

Junqueras thanked his solidarity and recalled that the ERC has always viewed "with sympathy the causes for justice and freedom in Latin America."

More:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Mujica-Stands-in-Solidarity-With-Catalan-Political-Prisoners-20201224-0010.html



Jose Mujica, on the left, as a prisoner during dictatorship
by right-wing Uruguayan dictatorship.

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Think Uruguay’s president is fascinating? Meet his wife
GlobalPost

March 30, 2014 · 8:15 AM UTC

Updated: March 31, 2014 · 8:30 AM EDT
By Will Carless



Uruguay's first lady and senior Senator Lucia Topolansky, on her farm outside Montevideo.
Credit:
Will Carless

Update: On Sept. 13, 2017, Lucía Topolansky became Uruguay's first woman vice president. The story that follows, originally published in 2014, offers a close look at the politician at a time when her husband José Mujica was president of the South American country.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — By most accounts, Uruguay’s President José “Pepe” Mujica is pretty badass.

He survived 14 years in prison, fought as a revolutionary, gives away most of his salary, drives a crumbling VW bug and shows up to official meetings in his sandals.

Hell, he even signed a law making Uruguay the first country on the planet that will grow, harvest, sell and tax marijuana.

But you know who’s just as much of a badass, if not more?

His wife.

Lucía Topolansky: Senator, ex-guerrilla, prison escapee, torture survivor, blonde-bombshell-turned-wild-haired, farm-living, hard-as-nails first lady.

More:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-30/think-uruguay-s-president-fascinating-meet-his-wife

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I have no context, so much of that made little sense to me. But well...I tried. Aside from your science posts, you provide a valuable service by posting about stuff outside the American bubble. At least it raises some awareness. Thanks.