CatholicOnline:Flores explains that the traditional Andean diet has kept him alive for 123 years. “Potatoes with quinoa are delicious,” Flores says in the Aymara dialect, the only language he speaks.
The poverty-stricken, landlocked South American country of Bolivia only started issuing official birth certificates in 1940 – and so it is not possible to verify Flores’ true age. He claims his baptism certificate lists his birthday as July 16, 1890 and he has national identity documents based on the certificate.
Bolivia’s Civil Registry Office says it’s investigating the validity of the documents and cannot comment until the investigation is completed. Read more here.
