SAN JOSE DE BOLIVAR, Venezuela – Juan Vicente Perez Mora has spent a
111-year lifetime in Venezuela’s Andes region, where he was born, grew
up, worked, got married and fathered 11 children.
Still leading an austere yet happy existence and regarded as the oldest
person in his homeland by a long way, he now is awaiting certification
as one of the world’s 10 longest-living people on Earth.
Born in 1909, it is no surprise that he was named after the country’s
most famous person at that time, dictator Juan Vicente Gomez
(1857-1935), who also was a native of the western state of Tachira and
ruled the country with an iron hand for nearly 30 years during the now-supercentenarian’s childhood and early adulthood.
Currently in a wheelchair, “El Tio” is a man of few words who carries himself with an easy smile and professes his faith by praying several
times a day and listening to Mass on the radio.
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