(14 May 2025)
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Montevideo, Uruguay – 14 May 2025
1. Various of horse-drawn carriage transporting coffin of late former Uruguayan president José Mujica
2. Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi alongside Mujica’s widow Lucia Topolansky walking toward the coffin
3. Various of coffing covered in flags being transported to parliament through city as mourners gather along route
4. Close of Orsi greeting people in street
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marlene Acosta, mourner:
“I feel a need, more than a need, it’s a moral obligation (to be here.) He was our president who, thanks to him, everybody knows him, everybody knows Uruguay. Uruguay wasn’t mentioned before. Thanks for all that he did for the poor; he’s the president of the poor, youth, and students. Everybody loves him. Even his adversaries love him and recognize his qualities.”
6. Various of Orsi and coffin arriving at parliament
7. Various of coffin being carried to "Hall of the Lost Steps"
8. Various of people and officials at wake
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Lacalle Pou, former Uruguayan president:
“I understand that it is something moving for the country. Those are the reasons why I am here, more than anything else, because of what I have felt since yesterday for a person that, although we obviously had many disagreements, in life it is always better to keep the good and not the other.”
9. Tilt down of people paying respects
STORYLINE:
Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica.
Mujica, who died Tuesday, was a former guerrilla who became a pioneering leader and icon of the Latin American left, remembered most for his humility, simple lifestyle and ideological earnestness.
"Thanks to all that he did for the poor, the president of the poor, youth, and students," said mourner Marlene Acosta.
"Everybody loves him. Even his adversaries love him and recognize his qualities.”
Thousands of people mourning the death of their former leader, affectionately known as “Pepe,” joined the procession as Mujica’s flag-furled coffin, borne on a gun carriage, made its way through downtown Montevideo.
It culminated at the country’s parliament, where banners, wreaths and portraits of Mujica covered the lawn.
“Farewell, Pepe” was painted across the walls of the historic Legislative Palace.
AP video by Diego Casal.
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