Jimmy Carter, the oldest US president in its 248-year history, celebrates a century of life this Tuesday at his home in Plains (Georgia), suffering from terminal health problems but excited about voting for vice president Kamala Harris in the November 5 elections, according to her family.
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Carter led the country for a single term (1977-1981), as is the case with Democrat Harris’ rival in those crucial elections, Republican Donald Trump, whom The former president has criticized on many occasions but also defended when he considered that he was being attacked by the media in an excessive manner.
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives at the memorial service for former US First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
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Who is Jimmy Carter?
The achievements of the Presidency of this man deeply linked to his hometown, of about 600 inhabitants and on his way to nowhere, were overshadowed by his management of the crisis of the 63 American hostages in the Tehran embassy in 1979, despite counting Among his successes was the signing of the Camp David agreements (1979) that allowed peace between Egyptians and Israelis, and the Panama Canal Treaty (1979).
In general, in the United States he was seen in those years as a good man, but a bad president, but his prestige grew after leaving the White House.
So, This “influential statesman”, as the current US president, Joe Biden, has defined him, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of the “tireless effort (deployed) in the search for solutions to international conflicts” .
Former President Jimmy Carter in 2015, during the signing of copies of his book ‘Full Life: Reflections at Ninety’, in New York.
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“We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. Not only can we make these changes, we must make them,” he said when receiving the award in Oslo accompanied by Rosalynn, with whom he was married for 77 years and had four children. and from which only death separated him.
The former first lady died in November 2023, after having begun receiving palliative care at home for her health problems, as did the former president, who has suffered from cancer and other serious ailments but chose more than a year ago not to continue receiving treatment. nor intervened.
We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. Not only can we make these changes, we must make them.
One of his grandsons, Jason Carter, recently stated that his grandfather is “mentally and emotionally involved in what is happening around him and in the news”an interest that has increased with the upcoming elections and the possibility that for the first time a woman, also a descendant of African Americans and Indian immigrants, will reach the White House.
Jason Carter chairs the Board of Trustees of the Carter Center, whose motto is Fighting for Peace. Fighting diseases. Building hope” and is one of the strongest legacies of the former ruler, who was the first high-ranking American political personality to visit Cuba and meet with Fidel Castro after Washington imposed the economic embargo on the island in the 1960s.
Rosalynn Carter, wife of former President Jimmy Carter, died at 96
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13 years passed until a US president, also a Democrat, Barack Obama, traveled to Havana on an official visit as part of the normalization of diplomatic relations between both countries.
In 1979, when the Sandinista guerrillas overthrew the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship by force of arms, Carter received the members of the new Government Junta at the White House and granted them aid worth 118 million dollars.
In addition to being the oldest, James Earl Carter, the firstborn of a family of Irish origin that owned several peanut plantations, is the first of the US presidents to be born in a hospital. His mother, who was a nurse, went into labor on October 1, 1924 at work, as was remembered on the occasion of the centenary.
Jimmy Carter.
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After his time in the armed forces, politics called him and he was a senator for Georgia and governor of his home state (1971-1974) before reaching the White House after having defeated Republican Gerald Ford at the polls. His successor in the White House was another Republican, Ronald Reagan.
He has written twenty books, including his memoirs, given conferences around the world and mediated in the conflicts in Ethiopia, Sudan, Colombia, Tibetan, Bosnia and the war between Ecuador and Peru in 1995, among others.
His intervention has also been requested by numerous countries on the occasion of the holding of general elections.among them Panama, Nicaragua, Zambia, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Indonesia, Mexico and Peru.
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