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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, p. 31

Jimmy Carter turned 100 yesterday, the latest milestone in a life that took a Depression-era farmer’s son to the White House, and around the world as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, humanist and advocate. of democracy. The Georgia Democrat and 39th president has received home palliative care for the past 19 months in Plains. He served only one term, from 1977 to 1981, and since then spent more than four decades directing the Carter Center, which he and his wife, Rosalynn, co-founded in 1982 to promote peace, combat disease and increase hope. Not everyone turns 100, and when someone achieves it and uses that time to do good for so many people, they deserve to be celebrated.Jason Carter, grandson of the former president and leader of the Carter Center’s board of directors, said in an interview. The image is from December 2018.