Montevideo. Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, 89, is in a “quite positive” state of health after receiving treatment for esophageal cancer, his wife and former vice president Lucía Topolansky said on Monday.
“Clinically, his condition is quite positive, but he is very weak now. He needs to start to regain his strength,” Topolansky told the newspaper “El País.”
“He is fine but fighting to be better. He is on a steep slope, he has to go up to be able to have all his energy,” he summed up.
Mujica announced at the end of April that he had been diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus and had begun radiotherapy treatment with the “maximum” goal of “recovery” and the intermediate goal of having “a long survival and a good quality of life,” his personal physician Raquel Pannone reported at the time.
Before starting treatment, Mujica said that “as long as I can” he will continue to fight and commented that “the doctors say I’m better” after voting in the internal elections on June 30.
The former guerrilla leader in the 1960s and 1970s was president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, heading the second of three consecutive governments of the leftist Frente Amplio.
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