0 Jose Mujica, President of The World's Poorest

Unlike most politicians whose lifestyles different from their voters, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica donate part of his salary and live in the farm house is very simple. Clothes hanging laundry outside her home. Water was drawn from all the wells in the weed-covered courtyard. Only two police officers and a dog with three legs named Manuela on guard outside.

Unlike most world leaders, President Mujica pick away from luxury homes provided by the Uruguayan government and the country's leaders chose to stay at the farm house of the wife who was away from the capital Montevideo.

According to the BBC, President Mujica and his own work on the farm and planted with flowers.

He also donated about 90 percent of his monthly income (about $ 12,000) to charity, so that his income in a month equal to the average salary of the workers Uruguay 775 U.S. dollars per month.

The simple life of President Mujica earned him the nickname as president of the world's poorest. "I've been living like this for most of the mine," he said, sitting in an old chair in the garden, using pillows Manuela.

"I can live well with what I have," he told the BBC. According to an annual wealth report state officials Uruguay, in 2010 the wealth of President Mujica only U.S. $ 1,800, the value of a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle hers.

This year he added his wife's assets such as land, a tractor and a house so that its value increased to 215,000 dollars.

But the number is only about two-thirds of the wealth of the Vice President of Uruguay, Danilo Astoria, reported, and a third of the wealth of its predecessor, Tabare Vasquez.

Mujica was elected president in 2009, spent the 1960's and 1970's he was part of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, the left-wing armed groups that inspired the Cuban revolution.

He was shot six times and spent 14 years in prison. He through a period of detention and isolation sulir before being released in 1985, when Uruguay returned to democracy.

The years in jail, said Mujica, helped shape his views on life.

"I called the president of the poorest, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who are just working to maintain expensive lifestyles, and always want more and more," he said.

"It is a matter of liberty. If you do not have much then you do not have to work like slaves to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself," he said.

"I may look like an eccentric old man,, ... but this is a free choice," he added.

Uruguay's leader expressed the same opinion when giving a speech at the Rio +20 summit in June.

"We all talk about sustainable development to come out of poverty. But what were we thinking? Did we want a model of development and consumption of rich countries?"

"I'm asking now: what happens on this planet when the Indian had cars per household proportions similar to Germany? How much oxygen we leaving?"

"Does the planet have enough resources so that seven or eight billion people can have the same level of consumption and waste by the rich now? Excessive consumption like this that endanger our planet."

"Is the earth has enough resources and the verse that could match the level of consumption and waste produced by society. Excessive consumption of these harmful to our planet?" he said.

Mujica said most world leaders have a "blind obsession to achieve economic growth by consumption of its citizens, as the world will end if it is not done."

Although the differences are vegetarian Mujica with other world leaders are very big, but he still is not immune from the ups and downs of political life.

"Many are sympathetic to President Mujica because his simple life. But this does not release him from the criticism of the government," said pollsters is common in Uruguay, Ignacio Zuasnabar.

Uruguay's opposition called the current state of the economy does not produce health care and better education and that from the popularity of the first elected President Mujica has dropped to below 50 percent of the vote.

This year he was also attacked by two controversial measures. Uruguay Congress recently passed legislation to legalize abortion up to 12 weeks gestation. Unlike its predecessor, Mujica did not veto the decision.

He also supports a debate on the legalization of marijuana consumption, the provision would also give a monopoly to the state in managing the trade.

"The consumption of marijuana is not the most worrying, drug transactions was the real problem," he said.

But he was not too concerned with his popularity ratings, which, according to the law in Uruguay means he can not contest the elections again in 2014.

He decided to retire from politics at the age of 77 years. At that time he will get a pension from the government - and not as a former president of the others, a decline in income that would not be a problem for him.