If Bolivia’s state records are correct there’s a man living in a remote village in the Andes who is 123 years of age.
According to baptism records, Carmelo Flores Laura, who lives in a straw-roofed hut in the village of Frasquia near Lake Titicaca, was born on July 16th, 1890.
The native of Aymara is illiterate, speaks no Spanish and has no teeth.
On the upside, he walks without a cane and doesn’t wear glasses.
"I see a bit dimly. I had good vision before. But I saw you coming,'' he recently told AP reporters who drove up from the capital, La Paz, to meet him.
If his birth date is proved correct, he will go down as the oldest person ever recorded - the previous oldest was Jeanne Louise Calment, who was born on February 21st, 1875.
She died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest living person verified by original proof of birth is Misao Okawa, a 115-year-old Japanese woman.
A spokeswoman for Guinness said the association had not yet had an oldest person claim filed from Bolivia.