Former President of Uruguay José "Pepe" Mujica is going through the final stages of esophageal cancer. At 90, the former revolutionary who was incarcerated for 14 years during the military dictatorship, still takes out his tractor twice a day on this ranch, looking at the sunflowers — a task he will continue to do as long as he has strength

“What I ask is that they leave me alone. That they don’t ask me for more interviews or anything. My cycle is over. Honestly, I’m dying. And the warrior has the right to his rest,” he said, in a final interview that he gave in tears, last Thursday.