I t is not a flashy country and José Mujica, who died on May 13th aged 89, became its epitome. As Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015 he continued to drive a battered sky-blu

The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.

José Mujica, a member of a Marxist rebel group that terrorized Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s and who later became a mainstream politician and one of his country’s most venerated presidents, died May 13 at his home in Rincón de Cerro,