2023-11-21 12:15:00
Joe Biden (left), 81 years old, is the oldest president of America, while Daniel Noboa (right) is the youngest at 35 years old. SHAWN THEW / J.P.GANDUL | EFE
Lula da Silva, in Brazil, and Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua, among the most veteran
21 nov 2023 . Updated at 11:53 a.m.
The president of the USA, JoeBiden is the oldest president in America at 81years, while with 46 years of difference, the future ruler of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, is the youngest on the continent at 35 years old. This Monday, Bidencelebrated his birthday with the traditional pardon of the turkeys for Thanksgiving Day, and took advantage to joke that it is difficult to turn 60. In addition, due to his age, the tenant of the White House has the Guinness record for the oldest person to be elected president of the United States.
America is one of the most diverse continents and it is also one of those with the most veteran leaders and, at the same time, the most new ones who have not yet reached the fourth decade. Next November 23, Daniel Noboa will become the president youngest in Ecuador and America, eight days before turning 36. Among himthe veterans are the president of Brazil, Luiz Incio Lula da Silvawho turned 78 last October and recently underwent hip surgery. 78 is also the age of Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega, who is serving his fifth term since 2022 and whose health has gone through some ups and downs.
The president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, who has governed since July 2019, is 70 years old, the same as the Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018).
Most of the rulers are in the sixth decade, such as the Guatemalan Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei (2020), who is 67 years oldand the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro (2022), 64 years old. They are followed by the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who turned 63 in April of this year, has governed since 2019 and is the first leader of the island born after the Cuban Revolution, and the head of State of Colombia, Gustavo Petro (2022), also 63 years old. Behind them, at 61 years old, is Dina Bolaurte, who assumed the Presidency of Peru in July 2022 after the destitution by Pedro Castillo.The presidents of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and of Venezuela, Nicols Maduro, share the same ideology and the same age at 60 years old
The group of those in their fifties is headed by the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Rodolfo Abinader (2020), at 56 years old.The recently elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei, is 53 years old, eleven younger than the outgoing president, Alberto Fernández, who is 64 years old.
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau (2015), is 51 years old and the president of Uruguay, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou (2020), at 50 years old. Santiago Pea, who assumed the Presidency of Paraguay in August of this year, is 45 years old, while the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele (2019) , is three years younger. Along with Noboa, he is part of the list of thirty-year-olds Gabriel Boric (2022), who at 37 years old is the youngest head of state in the history of Chile.
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