Surveillance firm denies bugging Ecuador embassy

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2. You are kidding, right? Go have a look at Latin America group for the level of vitriol displayed

by some posters against any Latin American country that has a leftist government.

About the only Latin American leftist President that hasn't been smeared is Jose Mujica.
Probably because they would prefer not to draw any attention to him.

Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president
By Vladimir Hernandez
BBC Mundo, Montevideo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243493

It's a common grumble that politicians' lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president - who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay.

Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside.

This is the residence of the president of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, whose lifestyle clearly differs sharply from that of most other world leaders.

President Mujica has shunned the luxurious house that the Uruguayan state provides for its leaders and opted to stay at his wife's farmhouse, off a dirt road outside the capital, Montevideo.

The president and his wife work the land themselves, growing flowers.

This austere lifestyle - and the fact that Mujica donates about 90% of his monthly salary, equivalent to $12,000 (£7,500), to charity - has led him to be labelled the poorest president in the world.