The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica.

Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay's capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin American left,

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89.