AREQUIPA, Peru – Lucía Chacón Hechavarría died early Monday morning in her home province of Santiago de Cuba. Until then, the Cuban was the oldest person on the island at 112 years and 222 days old.
Journalist Idalberto Aguilar Macías reported in Facebook Chacón Hechavarría was born on December 13, 1911 in the area of El Grillo, a town located between Sabanilla and Los Lazos, in the former region of Mayarí Arriba, currently Segundo Frente.
According to the reporter, the news also appeared on the website of the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), based in California, which has been tracking the oldest validated living people in the world since 1997.
The GRG regretted the death of the Santiago native and highlighted that she had achieved her longevity title after the death of Pedro Batista Layana on March 7, 2021, who was then 111 years old.
Lucia Chacon Hechavarria was the daughter of Julio Chacon Macias and Concepcion. Others of her biographical data They point out that she married Eduardo Díaz and had 10 children (six girls and four boys). When she died she had 42 grandchildren, 73 great-grandchildren and 26 great-great-grandchildren.
“Their testimonies were essential for the clarification of many events that occurred in the Mayaris region at the beginning of the 20th century and even in the 19th century, as he proudly spoke of his mambises grandparents: Tomás Macías and Onofre Orozco. The latter was the one who identified the corpse of the leader of the ‘Independientes de Color’ Evaristo Estenoz, in 1912,” wrote Aguilar Macías.
“She was recently classified by specialists as the longest-lived in Cuba (including both sexes),” he added.
On the Island, according to the latest official figures According to data from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), published in May 2023, life expectancy in the period 2018-2020 was 77.70 years, which represents a decrease compared to the period 2014-2016, when it was 78.1 years.
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