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Uruguay president says `US must learn Spanish harder'
By Ko Dong-hwan
Jose Mujica Cordano Uruguayan President
By Ko Dong-hwan
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica Cordano has become an American press darling with his interesting mixture of humility and opinionated straight talk, USA Today reported on Monday.
Meeting U.S. President Barack Obama at the Oval Office, Cordano showed up without a tie and declared that Americans must try harder to learn Spanish as much as Uruguayans are devoted to learning English.
He then proposed the U.S. follow the footsteps of Germany, which promised to send 10,000 scholars to Uruguay to help improve the country’s human resources.
Being the world’s first president to legalize cannabis, Cordano emphasized the importance of uprooting the evils of cigarettes.
Regarded as one of the individually poorest world leaders, Cordano is famous for his down-to-earth lifestyle; he lives in a rural shack with his wife, donates 90 percent of his income to charity and is frequently seen mingling with pedestrians.