In a wooden house with a tin roof, tucked into a quiet corner of Costa Rica's Guanacaste province, an old man rests his hands on a walker and grins at anyone who walks through the door. His name is José Flores Flores. He was born on July 11, 1907, which makes him, depending on how the paperwork shakes out, the oldest human being alive today, a report by elpais.com stated.
Nobody expected this. Not the doctors, not the demographers, and certainly not José himself, who spent most of his life earning wages too thin to ever own a plot of land. Yet here he is, 119 years old, sharp enough to needle his granddaughter and strong enough to challenge visitors to an arm-wrestling match with his left hand, his stronger one, he insists.
