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Nov 16, 2012
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." --Leonardo Da Vinci
The Poorest & Most Generous President in the World
Jose Mujica, president of Uruguay, has been described as the world's poorest and most generous political leader; he donates about 90% of his salary to charities, lives in a modest house at his wife's flower farm, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. Uruguayans know him as "Pepe" and just about everyone in the country agrees that, in everyday life, he's a citizen like any other, except he doesn't have a bank account and has very few debts.