Uruguay’s popular former president José Mujica reveals he is dying of cancer

My cycle is over,' says leftwinger, 89, who lives humbly and oversaw one of healthiest and most liberal democracies

Jose Mujica, the former guerrilla who became Uruguay's president and a global progressive icon, has announced that the cancer in his oesophagus has spread to his liver, and that he has chosen to forgo further treatment.

In what Mujica said would be his last interview, he told Busqueda, a weekly news magazine in Uruguay, that he was doomed".