Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica is the ex president of Uruguay and a man you can look up to.

He was born on the 20th of May 1935 to a poor family on a small farm run by his father who went bankrupt shortly before his death in 1940. Between the ages 13-17 Jose rode in seven different cycling clubs, he was also quite active with the national party, in the mid 1960s he joined the newly formed MLN-Tupamaros movement, an armed political revolution and was part of attacks on a city called Pando, after wich he resisted arrest at a bar, injured two police men and was shot six times, he was sent to a hospital and then to jail for fourteen years.

In 2010 he became the president of Uruguay and while in office, he never let the power of his authority change him, he remained true to his humble beginnings and governed with his integrity and ideals intact. He feels safe among his people and can walk the streets alone.

 Here are some of the things that make him awesome.
He donated ninety percent of his salary to charity- this alone makes him awesome! He lived on a small farm with only two police officers and his small dog to protect him, he drives a 1987 blue beetle and he picks up hitchhikers, he legalized gay marriage and he legalized marijuana , he is in no way like any other politician and, all that after being shot six times and spending fourteen years in jail.

He is definitely one of the 100 awesome men of this list.