Over 600 people at the PIME Theater in Milan for the meeting between the Fim Cisl, and its General Secretary Marco Bentivogli, with the former President of Uruguay Josè Pepe Mujica. Pepe, with Ligurian ancestors, was the first Tupamaro to enter Parliament in Uruguay and the first former guerrilla to sit in the oval room of the White House when Barack Obama asked for his help for the historic turning point of rapprochement with Cuba. Attentive to the least and man of the people so much as to allocate more than 70% of the allowance as president to the construction of houses for the poor. Pepe uses words that are also dear to the Fim.
Marco Welcome “Pepe embodies a story and a hope. My generation and that of the younger ones need teachers, positive points of reference. For us, Pepe is in the ability not to evoke values but to witness and practice them. He is a non-ideological-dogmatic leader who has faith in progress. Power and ideology must never stay above and away from reality. He needs an understated style if he is to take on a public role. His message against populists and racists is disruptive. Pepe and the Fim will never love ideas more than people. Herein lies our union and human style and we will never give up practicing them even in these bad days in which the poor are taught that the cause of their poverty is due to those poorer than themselves”.
