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José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine.
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Before leading the country, Mujica spent more than a decade as a political prisoner under Uruguay’s military dictatorship, including several years in solitary confinement.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, is a political prisoner.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2025
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Before leading the country, Mujica spent more than a decade as a political prisoner under Uruguay’s military dictatorship, including several years in solitary confinement.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, is a political prisoner.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2025
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2025
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“Political prisoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/political%20prisoner. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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