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In a video shot by the organization last February, the smiling Cana- barro can be seen cracking jokes, sharing miniature paintings she used to make of wild flowers and re- citing the Hail Mary prayer. The secret to longevity? Her Cath- olic faith, she says. “I’m young, pretty and friendly — all very good, positive qualities that you have too,” the Teresian nun tells the visitors to her retirement home in the southern Brazilian city of Por- to Alegre. Her nephew spends time with her every Saturday and sends her voice messages between visits to keep her spirits up following two hospitaliza- tions that left her weak, with diffi- culty talking. “The other sisters say she gets a jolt when she hears my voice,” he says. “She gets excited.” Canabarro was born on June 8, 1908 to a large family in southern Brazil, according to LongeviQuest researchers. But her nephew said her birth was registered two weeks late and she was actually born on May 27. Her great-grandfather was a famed Brazilian general who took up arms during the turbulent per- iod following Brazil’s independence from Portugal in the 19th century. She took up religious work while still a teenager and spent two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro and even- tually settling in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul. Among the lifelong teach- er’s former stu- dents was Gen. Joao Figueiredo, the last of the military dicta- tors who gov- erned Brazil be- tween 1964 and 1985. She was also the beloved creator of two marching bands at schools in sister cities straddling the border between Uruguay and Brazil. For her 110th birthday, she was honoured by Pope Francis. She is the second oldest nun ever documented, after Lucile Randon, who was the world’s oldest person until her death in 2023 at the age of 118. Local soc- cer club Inter — which was founded after Canabarro’s birth — cele- brates every year the birthday of its oldest fan. Her room is decorated with gifts in the team’s red and white colours, says her nephew. “White or black, rich or poor, who- ever you are, Inter is the team of the people,” she says in one video post- ed on social media celebrating her 116th birthday with the club’s presi- dent. Canabarro took the title of the old- est living person following the death of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka in Decem- ber, according to LongeviQuest. She now ranks as the 20th oldest docu- mented person to have ever lived, a list topped by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to LongeviQuest. — The Associated Press CARLOS MACEDO / LONGEVIQUEST Sister Inah Canabarro now ranks as the 20th oldest documented person to have ever lived. ‘White or black, rich or poor, whoever you are, Inter is the team of the people’ — Sister Inah Canabarro Melania Trump doc will be released by Amazon LOS ANGELES — Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Prime Video. The streaming arm of the tech giant Amazon got exclusive licensing rights for a streaming and theatrical release later this year, the company said Sun- day. Filming is already underway on the documentary. The company said in a statement that the film will give view- ers an “unprecedented behind-the- scenes look” at Melania Trump and also promised a “truly unique story.” The former and now future first lady also released a self-titled memoir late last year. Her husband takes office on Jan. 20. The film is the latest connection between Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump. The company in December announced plans to donate US$1 million to the president-elect’s in- auguration fund, and said that it would also stream Trump’s inauguration on its Prime Video service, a separate in- kind donation worth another US$1 mil- lion. The two men had been at odds in the past. During his first term, Trump criticized Amazon and railed against the political coverage at The Washing- ton Post, which Bezos owns. But he’s struck a more conciliatory tone recent- ly as Amazon and other tech companies seek to improve their relationship with the incoming president. In December, Bezos expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years and said he was “optimistic” about Trump’s second term. Bezos in October did not allow the Post to endorse a presidential can- didate, a move that led to tens of thousands of people cancelling their subscriptions and to protests from jour- nalists with a deep history at the news- paper. This past weekend, a cartoonist quit her job after an editor rejected her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before the president-elect. Fernando Sulichin, an Argentine filmmaker, is executive producing the film, which began shooting in Decem- ber. — The Associated Press LINDSEY BAHR ;