Luis Echeverría alive at 97

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Recently we've been shocked to learn Edouard Balladur is alive at 90. But then came this even bigger shocker.

[CumbrianLeftie]

Last in the news with the inquiries into the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico, but even that was a decade ago now.

[It's morning again in America]

Echeverría also kind of entered public consciousness recently because of Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, at least as far as I am concerned.


The oldest living ex-head of state/government is Yasuhiro Nakasone though. Age 101.

The still living ex-head of state/government whose term in office is the farthest back into the past:
Mustafa Ben Halim, prime minister of Libya from 1954 to 1957. Alive at age 98.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The oldest living ex-head of state/government is Yasuhiro Nakasone though. Age 101.

I guess we've jinxed it.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/11/9aa816c91bed-breaking-news-ex-japanese-prime-minister-nakasone-dies-at-101.html

Ironically, I've read of him earlier today in context of Jaruzelski's state visit to Japan during his tenure.

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Breaking News: Francisco Franco is still alivedead.

[Away, haul away, we'll haul away, Joe!]

The oldest living ex-head of state/government is Yasuhiro Nakasone though. Age 101.

I guess we've jinxed it.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/11/9aa816c91bed-breaking-news-ex-japanese-prime-minister-nakasone-dies-at-101.html

Ironically, I've read of him earlier today in context of Jaruzelski's state visit to Japan during his tenure.

RIP, HP.