Is This the World’s Oldest Woman?
- Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:47am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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CEIBA HUECA, Cuba (AP) — Relatives and friends of a Cuban woman have celebrated what they say is her 126th birthday, though that claim to longevity is not recognized internationally. Cuba’s Prensa Latina agency says Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez has a civil registry document that states she was born on Feb. 2, 1885, in the town of Ceiba Hueca, where she still lives.
Her 125th birthday celebration last year was covered extensively in the island’s state-run media, but she isn’t recognized by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which verifies information for Guinness World Records.
The claim would make her the world’s oldest person by more than a decade. At 114 years old, American Besse Cooper is recognized as the world’s oldest person.
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Comments (92)
kung
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:45amLooks like it.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:21amHow long before she is tapped for an obama-2012 campaign commercial? – - Happy Communist lives to 126 – and you can too! Vote Communism – Vote obama – for a Happy, Long Life!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 5, 2011 at 11:00pmShe could be Michelle’s sister and will be on OPRAH”s show soon.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:21amHelen Thomas has her by ten years.
Report Post »Philo Beddoe
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:04amDoesn’t look a day over 100!
Report Post »OH, I Get It!
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:52amShe hasn’t really lived 126 years, by living in Cuba it SEEMS like 126 years.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:46am126 years young, I am. Stay away from our doctors down here I do….ummmm. Use the force I do.
Report Post »Thomas_Jefferson_philosophy
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:43am“I’m not third in line for the oldest person, I’m second” Nancy Pelosi
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:41amI want to know how these gals did it. Probably no drinking, smoking, fast food, late nights. if that’s the case, i’ll have to count myself out already. darn.
Report Post »skimmer57
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:28amShe looks a lot like Rush Limbomb’s fourth wife!
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:48amActually Skimmer have you seen his fourth wife? She is actually quite the knockout.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/13972
She’s a tall drink of water for sure. For that I give El Rushbo props.
Report Post »skimmer57
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:14amYou are correct sir. She is way out of his league. It must be his boyish good looks or athletic body! Maybe it’s the copious amount of Viagra or oxy-cotins his dealer can get him! No I prefer to think it’s his well rounded humor and optimistic out look he has for society. I’m over thinking this. We all know it has to be his golf game!
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:25amPelosi is older.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:04amThat is Pelosi without all the plastic surgery! See, we do have the best medicine on the planet.
Report Post »dabbo
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:18amShe might be pushing a 100…..but 126?…..very doubtful.
Report Post »clinicalminded
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:15amI thought this was Chris Dodd.
Report Post »BrotherWill
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:11amIts fake. Under the “awesome” Cuban health care system, that woman is actualy 32.
Report Post »the_zazzy
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:07amSo that’s what we can look forward to under Obamacare?
Report Post »Proud AF Oathkeeper
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:06amWho cares if it is true or not. The fact is she is living a long and fruitful life. I hope she celebrates her accomplishments in life and God bless her!!
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:21amRefreshing comment. WELL STATED.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:30amAmen indeed.
Report Post »RAS
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:32amAbsolutely! You’ve nailed it Oathkeeper! Nothing else need be said. Yes, God bless her!
Report Post »av8trx
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 5:59pmSadly, at the beginning of he clip, she claims: “I’m not much of a believer, I suspect when it‘s my time I’ll just die.” I will pray that her faith will blossom between now and then.
Report Post »philm1
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:04amDo you know why husbands die before their wives?
They want to. :-)
http://www.halfuhmind.com
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:04amAin’t she the press corp babe that told the Jews to go back to where they came from?
Report Post »AnotherWay
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:04amThe secret to her longevity? “Yo odio Woodrow Wilson”
Report Post »jennalee3
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:03amHey Glenn Stu Pat sombody did you see this
Report Post »This is a commercial from the 1950′s with Ronald Reagan. In this commercial he explains the evils of socialized medicine. How it can lead to total socialism, even back in the 50′s people were worried about what the government was trying to do with universal health care. Please add it to the blaze
In a Bunker
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:20amIt was on Fox News:
Report Post »http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDsQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2010%2F02%2F24%2Fvintage-reagan-bemoans-socialized-medicine-youtube-sensation%2F&ei=asdKTbSdK4uisQPAqdSZCg&usg=AFQjCNFBKjGlhQ5PIgRHwQKKDF6GU3WtzA
cursebreaker
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:02amSo, she is 126 and has an 80 year old son? Now, I know it is not out of the realm of possiblity for a 46 year old woman to give birth, but it tends to put her susposed age into question. I would love to know if she has any children younger than 80…
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:59amI couldn’t imagine living to be that old. Heck, I couldn’t imagine living to be 50 years old, let alone 126.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 7:28amBorn in 1885, that’s 13 years before the Spanish/American War (1898) and the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. I’m 72, I look and feel old but Ms. Juana is 54 years older than I am. What’s her secret ? It‘s probably all that special food she gets under Castro’s communist regime, like the special gravy Cuban scientists came up with in the 1960′s to make “buzzard meat” more palatable. It could be the extra rations of Cuban rum and cigars she gets each month since these items are illegal in the USA.
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:57amShe has better documentation than Barry!
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:17amLeave it to a Blaze poster to equate the oldest woman in the world with the birther movement. Man, this IS Romper Room.
Report Post »RAS
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:29amHey “MiddleClass!” Lighten-up! It was a JOKE!!!
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:32amMaybe lowclassprophet is just upset because he believes in Barry! He probably believes that the pope is God incarnant on the earth too.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:32amyeah, it was a joke based in fact…..
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:33amHey, we all got here the same way!
Report Post »Bob1943
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:43pmDon‘t be mentioning Barry’s lack of eligibility, even as a joke…….Alinsky has supposed to have shut all the crazy birthers, i.e., Constitutionalist, up by now.
Just kidding, bring it up every chance you get!!
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:53amBetter keep her away from Bill Clinton, she looks like his type.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:09am.
Report Post »Shes safe she has on a Yellow dress……….
ThatchWeave
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:53amWe should bring her to the US, salute her and give her freedom for the precious time she has left on this earth.
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:10pmOh… i’m pretty sure tha would kill her.
Report Post »KyooMac
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:53amMust be the rum and cigars
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:55amIf it works for her, then who is to knock it. I could not imagine living for that length of time.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:00amI don’t want to live that long, for me that would be a horror.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:07amAnd some incredible luck staying away from the “wonderful” Cuban health care system.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:13amWe just celebrated my pediatricians birthday yesterday she was 113 she actually was still practicing medicine until she was 103 and was still sharp as a tack. Dr, Leila Denmark a remarkabla Lady, I personally have no desire to live that long,
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:16pmNo fluoride in water. No Aluminum oxide sprayed on her. No poisonous flu shots. What do you expect?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:23pm@Untameable-kate..why not?? she still looks like she does really well.. better than much younger people here..
Report Post »Bigliardi
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:32pmNo, it is the Cuban health care system…
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:52amIf she is 126, She is the world’s oldest.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:29amIncredible.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:31amGoogle births 1885. I recognized 3 name on the list. Bess Truman, George Patton, and Pfogg Allen from Kansas basketball fame…Interesting….
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:48amWow, God bless her. 126 years old. We have a woman in our town who will be turning 100 this year.
She is old school black. Back when they were polite and had class.
mill
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:02amLANTERN…
Back when they were “respectful”?….where the heck are you from? Love them lackies ?
Report Post »taxed
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:05amHer son is in his 80s, and he looks like he is in his 40s or 50s!
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:08amMakes Helen Thomas look like a teenager:)
Report Post »Tomzuma13
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:19amShe doesn’t look a day over 115. Wow!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 12:19pmShe looks old to me.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 1:03pm126 years old ‘and still makes her own bread.’
Report Post »hologram5
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 3:13pmOldest and surely the scariest.
Robert W
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 3:36pmShe’s 35. She loves that tanning booth tho…
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 3:53pm126 years in Cuba? She did something to deserve such a punishment?? Very cruel.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 5:59pm@Lantern
Wow, just more proof of the racism within the tea-party and among the loyal Beck fans.
Report Post »SoonerBorn68
Posted on February 4, 2011 at 2:25am@ encinom
…For a guy who probably supports the people who wants Justice Thomas hanged. :rolleyes:
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