Mujica Opens Agriculture School Next to His Montevideo Home
Mujica Opens Agriculture School Next to His Montevideo Home
Caracas,
Saturday
March 7,2015
MONTEVIDEO – Former President Jose Mujica, who is now a senator, has opened an agricultural school for 60 youngsters next to his small farm on the outskirts of Montevideo as part of a personal project with Uruguay’s Trades University, or UTU.
“We decided to do this a long time ago, but until now other obligations had taken us in different directions,” the 79-year-old Mujica said at the grand opening on Thursday.
As a young man, Mujica was a farmer and grew flowers before joining the Tupamaro guerrillas in the 1960s.
Mujica was a political prisoner for 13 years and served as this South American country’s president from 2010 to 2015.
Last weekend, Mujica, who lives on the farm with his wife, former guerrilla and now Sen. Lucia Topolansky, handed over the presidential sash to Tabare Vazquez.
“We don’t have children. This is the place we built with much effort and we want it to be left for the neighborhood and for education. When we are not here anymore, we want to be remembered as two crazy oldies who left a school,” the 70-year-old Topolansky told Efe in a recent interview.
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Lucia Topolansky, in the middle
Pepe Mujica, on the left.
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