José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano was a Uruguayan politician, revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was the minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010.

Headlines from May 20, 1935

Bonus Veto to Be First Ever Read to Congress

Girl, Out Late, Killed Stealing Into Home; Rope Snaps as She Slides Down From Roof

Harnett Warns Motorists To Renew Their Licenses

POLICE WILL HONOR CAB-DRIVER HEROES; Breast Bars of Commendation to Be Presented to Seventy for Meritorious Service.

MAYOR IS CRITICAL OF CONSTITUTION; Future of the Nation Must Be Written Into It, He Tells the Progressives.

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