El camino y la llegada al poder, la forma de vivirlo y ejercerlo, los conflictos con su liturgia y su protocolo, el encuentro con figuras como Obama, Fidel Castro, Putin, Chávez o Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, la soledad de sentirse a veces en un mundo ajeno. Todo contado a los autores por su protagonista, Pepe Mujica, y por muchos testigos.
Un relato con un ritmo vertiginoso que atrapa desde la primera hasta la última página, producto de más de cien horas de conversaciones hogareñas e institucionales, políticas e íntimas, personales y telefónicas. Todas ellas compartidas entre el despacho presidencial y el medio del campo, en escenarios tan disímiles como la Casa Blanca, el Vaticano, la chacra de Mujica a las afueras de Montevideo o una pequeña casa reciclada, en la que ninguna tertulia terminó antes de la madrugada. Andrés Danza y Ernesto Tulbovitz, quienes mantuvieron más de treinta años de contacto ininterrumpido con Mujica hasta la fecha de su muerte, muestran al hombre detrás del personaje, ese que confiesa haberse sentido siempre una «oveja negra».
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“Politics is the fight for happiness for all.” –José Mujica.
Just five years as president of a country as small as Uruguay have been enough to turn José Mujica into a respected figure around the world: a different sort of politician who represents a different way of practicing politics and power, closer to the people and to common sense. Because as Mujica says, “politicians have to live like the majority, not the minority.”
Mujica, who has always felt himself a black sheep, and who spent more than 13 years in prison for his political militancy, explains his rise to power, the conflicts with his liturgy and protocol, his meetings with people like Obama, Fidel Castro, Putin, Chávez, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and the loneliness of sometimes feeling in a foreign world.
It is a dizzying tale, the product of more than 100 hours of conversations, both cozy and businesslike, political and intimate, in person and via phone. All of them held between the presidential office and the middle of the countryside, in settings as varied as the White House, the Vatican, Mujica’s pond in the outskirts of Montevideo, or a small, recycled house, in which no social gathering ended before dawn.
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