Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s former leader, rebel icon and cannabis reformer, dead at 89

Jose Mujica, the former president of Uruguay who enacted progressive reforms and was known to many around the country by his nickname “Pepe,” has died at age 89.
Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89….