The president said that the only big item he owns is his VW car, valued at $1,945 dollars. The farmhouse in which he lives in Montevideo is under his wife’s name, Lucía Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary.

“I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less,” the president told El Mundo.
He donates 90 percent of his earnings, to charitable causes.

Without bank accounts, and with few debts, Mujica told El Mundo that he sleeps peacefully.

Uruguay is the second smallest nation in South America by area, after Suriname. However it is one of the most developed countries on the continent, with a GDP per capita of $15,656. That’s less than half of United States’ GDP per capita, but it triples earnings in Honduras which has a GDP per capita of just $4,345.
Under Mujica’s stewardship, Uruguay has become known for low levels of corruption. The South American country ranks as the second least corrupt country in Latin America in Transparency International’s global corruption index.

Who votes for such leaders?kam to think of it how much wealth does 1 need?if you have enough money to take your kids to a nice school,u have ua home and you are comfy what is the excess and above cash for?

thanks for bringing this up Maka, I have always thought like that, at the moment I think if I earned a net income of 150k in Kenya for the next 5-7 years,I will not need anything else,inshalla. I amy revise that figure lateR........