LESSON 9 The World’s Poorest President
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 Mujica was born/in a poor area of Montevideo/in 1935.// When he was in his early 20s,/the economy in Uruguay/went down.// He became concerned about the gap/between the rich and the poor.//
 Mujica thought/that political change was necessary.// He fought against the military government/and got arrested four times.// It was 13 years/that Mujica spent in jail.// However,/he did not give up his hope/of changing Uruguay/into a better country.//
 In 1985,/he was finally released.// He never lost his strong will/to change society/and became a politician/ten years later.// Then in 2010,/he was elected/as the 40th president of Uruguay.//

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