A 114-year-old man, who was considered the oldest man in the world since 2022, has died in Venezuela. “Juan Vicente Pérez Mora has passed into eternity,” declared Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The Guinness Book of Records officially confirmed Pérez as the oldest man on earth in 2022. At the time, the Venezuelan was 112 years and 253 days old.
The farmer known as Tio Vicente was born on May 27, 1909 in El Cobre in the Andean state of Táchira. At the age of five, he began helping his father and brothers in agriculture, for example with the sugar cane and coffee harvest. Pérez leaves behind an extensive offspring; he had eleven children, 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and twelve great-great-grandchildren.
Valerie Hader
