Cuban News Agency

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Candulia, like people call her affectionately, said she feels well, between the kisses, embraces, sweets, flowers and other presents she received from relatives, neighbors, close friends and representatives of local institutions.

In a fluid conversation with ACN, she was very happy, and declared to be proud of her descendants and thankful for the warm treatment given to her by residents in Santa Rosa and people visiting her.

She said that, in recent years, Mexican, Spanish, French, Japanese and Dominican persons have come to meet her, something she never thought would happen.

 

As proof of her lucidity, she expressed her condemnation to the war threats imposed on today’s world, and asserted very clearly: “I want peace”.

Juana Bautista was born on February 2, 1885, in the hamlet of Santa Rosa, in the
neighborhood of Ceiba Hueca Arriba, Granma province, according to Volume I, Page 35, of the municipal Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths, where she was registered on February 27 of that year.

Her age was also scientifically demonstrated by way of a biomedical and psychosocial study carried out in 2007 by a multidisciplinary team of the Cuban Public Health Ministry and the Iberian-American Center for the Third Age.

This long-lived woman of black race had 12 siblings, and apparently inherited long life from her parents, since her mother died a centenarian and her father at 96 years of age.

 

With clear voice, she speaks slowly and complains of not being able to stand up, and although her lack of vision prevents her from watching television, she listens to programs like The Round Table and the National Newscast.