["WEBVTT","","NOTE","language:en-GB","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.030","This document, document on a phenomenon. Look at this man","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:04.094 --> 00:00:07.979","here photographed in an official setting after his election 4","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:08.043 --> 00:00:11.036","years ago in Uruguay, his name is mourik. He is","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:11.100 --> 00:00:14.922","undoubtedly the most modest President of the Republic in the","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:14.985 --> 00:00:18.106","world. He refuses to live in the palaces, he even","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:21.609","sold one of the presidential residences. He makes it a","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:21.673 --> 00:00:24.985","point of honor to live like an ordinary pensioner on","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:25.049 --> 00:00:28.616","his farm to show his opposition to the consumer society,","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8778321743011475","","00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:29.889","our special envoys.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8697032928466797","","00:00:30.370 --> 00:00:32.911","Logo and appointment to meet them and here is their","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8697032928466797","","00:00:32.961 --> 00:00:33.310","report.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8425921201705933","","00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.297","The house is so modest that we pinch ourselves to","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8425921201705933","","00:00:37.364 --> 00:00:40.595","believe it, and the clothes of the head of state","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8425921201705933","","00:00:40.662 --> 00:00:45.373","are quite unformer protocolary. That morning, Mourik, 78, President of","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8425921201705933","","00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:48.940","the Republic of Uruguay, received us at his home, an","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8425921201705933","","00:00:49.007 --> 00:00:49.949","old tracksuit.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8619097471237183","","00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:54.710","I've been living there for 28 years.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8492434620857239","","00:00:55.790 --> 00:01:00.465","Elected president in 2009, Jose Mourinho has not changed anything","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8492434620857239","","00:01:00.537 --> 00:01:03.271","in his way of life. As in the past. He","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8492434620857239","","00:01:03.343 --> 00:01:07.731","drinks mate, this herbal infusion very popular in Uruguay and","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8492434620857239","","00:01:07.803 --> 00:01:11.040","as in the past he returns home every night to","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8492434620857239","","00:01:11.112 --> 00:01:11.759","his farm.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8953561186790466","","00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:15.975","There is a house for the president with a park","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8953561186790466","","00:01:16.017 --> 00:01:17.420","and everything that goes with it.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:18.390 --> 00:01:21.628","An unbearable if you want a cup of tea, you","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:21.703 --> 00:01:25.695","have to walk 200 M in Uruguay, the president receives","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:25.770 --> 00:01:29.611","a monthly salary of 9000 \u00e2\u201a\u00ac Mourik accept only 1000,","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:29.687 --> 00:01:33.528","the rest is paid to the State. The former guerrilla","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:33.603 --> 00:01:37.519","of the extreme left is today a president totally out","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:37.595 --> 00:01:41.511","of the ordinary. A political UFO shaped by his years","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8537595272064209","","00:01:41.586 --> 00:01:44.749","in prison under the military dictatorship.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.9056254625320435","","00:01:46.620 --> 00:01:50.210","I had to live for 10 years in extreme conditions.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8620160818099976","","00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.583","It is when at night I had a mattress to","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8620160818099976","","00:01:55.655 --> 00:01:56.090","sleep.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8689335584640503","","00:01:57.260 --> 00:01:58.930","It was like winning the lottery.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.7999056577682495","","00:02:00.590 --> 00:02:03.070","So I learned to live with nothing.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.7757028937339783","","00:02:04.670 --> 00:02:08.240","Na, I don't call anything apology for poverty.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8044574856758118","","00:02:09.220 --> 00:02:12.312","And was. Rather, it is the apology of a life","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8044574856758118","","00:02:12.382 --> 00:02:14.349","with only what is necessary.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:17.130 --> 00:02:20.863","At the mourik, no house staff the first lady takes","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:20.938 --> 00:02:24.447","care of the kitchen. Racism is not a fa\u00c3\u00a7ade, it","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:24.522 --> 00:02:28.927","advocates today all 2 a socialism morning of market economy","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:29.002 --> 00:02:33.108","and they agree on the place of the presidential couple.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:33.183 --> 00:02:37.588","There have been women, presidents who have played this role","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:37.663 --> 00:02:41.247","of first lady, but I work, I was elected senator","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:41.322 --> 00:02:45.354","to get here, you have to leave Montevideo, the capital","","NOTE Confidence: 0.868146538734436","","00:02:45.428 --> 00:02:46.250","of Uruguay.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:50.952","And take this rudimentary dirt road between 2 presidential bonds,","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:02:51.023 --> 00:02:55.015","mourik gladly gives a hand to his farmer neighbors. This","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:02:55.086 --> 00:02:58.649","is the indication of the presence here of the head","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:02:58.721 --> 00:03:03.211","of state, these 2 security officers in his presidential office,","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:03:03.282 --> 00:03:06.703","here in the heart of the capital, he never wears","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:03:06.774 --> 00:03:09.839","a tie. An atypical head of state for one of","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:03:09.910 --> 00:03:14.044","the most stable countries in Latin America, Uruguay is now","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8618184924125671","","00:03:14.115 --> 00:03:16.610","showing honourable economic growth.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:19.959","And an unemployment rate of less than 6%. But it","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:20.027 --> 00:03:24.428","is especially in the countryside and the most disadvantaged areas","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:24.496 --> 00:03:28.152","that Mourik is very popular. No private plane for this","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:28.220 --> 00:03:31.944","president, that day he landed in a Civil Guard aircraft","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:32.011 --> 00:03:35.329","in salto, in the north of the country. He swapped","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8659334778785706","","00:03:35.397 --> 00:03:37.090","his tracksuits for jeans.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.9143626689910889","","00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:43.630","It has just inaugurated social housing for single mothers.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8569533228874207","","00:03:45.160 --> 00:03:49.408","The President lets himself be kissed and photographed with bonhomie","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8569533228874207","","00:03:49.471 --> 00:03:52.895","his bodyguards are ordered not to reject anyone. He is","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8569533228874207","","00:03:52.958 --> 00:03:54.099","an example for us.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8738837838172913","","00:03:54.660 --> 00:03:56.935","Before him, no one paid his salary, it was quite","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8738837838172913","","00:03:56.982 --> 00:03:59.400","the opposite. We had the feeling that we were being","","NOTE Confidence: 0.8738837838172913","","00:03:59.448 --> 00:03:59.779","robbed.","","NOTE Confidence: 0.9026880860328674","","00:04:01.870 --> 00:04:02.560","The Republic.",""]ArrayThis document, document on a phenomenon. Look at this man