"Lula has conveyed his bitterness over the state Brazil is in," says Uruguay's former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica, after the leftist veteran received his friend, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, at his farm in the outskirts of Montevideo. Mujica, a former guerilla fighter, became a cult figure during his 2010-2015 rule, known as the world's "poorest president" for giving away most of his salary and driving an old Volkswagen Beetle. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES