Mujica repentant for condemning Uruguay to endure military dictatorship

Tuesday, September 15th 2009 - 08:31 UTC

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Uruguay’s incumbent presidential candidate and former Tupamaros guerrilla leader Jose “Pepe” Mujica sent shockwaves both inside the ruling coalition and the opposition as a result of a long controversial Sunday interview with the Buenos Aires daily La Nación. Read full article

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horacio
Wrong quote, wrong translation, misguiding headline.
Mujica said: “De lo que me tengo que arrepentir de la lucha armada es de que este pueblo se comió 16 años de dictadura y no la pudimos sacar a patadas”.
There is only one honest translation for that quote: “My regret about armed struggle is that this people suffered 16 years of dictatorship and we couldn't kick them out”.
While an unaware non-native reader, might misunderstand the original Spanish quote to mean what the headline says, for a Uruguayan medium, it would take bad intentions to extract that headline as a quote.
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