Uruguay's former President (2010-2015) Jose Mujica gives an AFP interview while his wife Lucia Topolansky walks behind him at his house in Montevideo on November 28, 2024. He is perhaps the most famous Uruguayan in the world, but that doesn't faze him. ‘I'm not a phenomenon; I'm an ordinary guy with some eccentricities (...) a freak,’ the 89-year-old former president told AFP, with a thousand battles and a brand new victory: that of his running mate Yamandú Orsi in Sunday's presidential elections, which allowed the left to return to power in this country of 3.4 million inhabitants. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP)