20.11.2017 - 23:45 [ teleSUR ]

Life Can‘t Amount to Working and Paying Bills: Uruguay‘s Mujica

“Human life can‘t amount to — as capitalism dictates — working, paying bills and accumulating debt,” said former Uruguayan President Jose Pepe Mujica at a conference in Montevideo aimed at organizing against neoliberal reforms affecting Latin America and the world. “Defending free time and liberty is a question of principle,” he said during a panel titled, “We Continue Struggling: Challenges While Confronted By a Conservative Wave and Attacks Against Democracy.”