Aerosmith Charmed By LatAm's Humble President The Huffington Post
go to original October 16, 2013

“Your president is a freedom fighter,” Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler said after meeting with Mujica. (SubrayadoHD)

Aerosmith has become the latest group of people to be charmed by Latin America’s most humble head of state.

The American rockers met up with Uruguayan President José Mujica on last week for three hours, where they sang his praises and offered an autographed guitar as a gift. Mujica said the next day that he’d auction off the guitar to raise money to build housing, Mexican news site Sin Embargo reports.

... Mujica has inspired people across the globe with his austere style of governing. Dubbed the “world’s poorest president” by the BBC, Mujica lives on a modest flower farm with his wife outside the capital of Montevideo and donates 90 percent of his salary to charity.

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