Jimmy Carter, former US president, dies aged 100
He has received palliative care since February 2023. At the time, the announcement said Carter “has decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care in lieu of further medical intervention.”
Carter treated skin cancer, which had spread to his liver and brain. He announced the diagnosis of an aggressive melanoma in August 2015, with metastases in both organs. In December of the same year, Carter reported that he no longer had outbreaks of the disease due to an experimental treatment, but he began to have health problems again in 2019.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and president between 1977 and 1981
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He received the award for his “decades of tireless effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to promote democracy and human rights, and economic and social development.”
He presided over the USA between 1977 and 1981. During his government, Carter faced energy crises, high inflation and mediated important international conflicts, such as the war between Israel and Egypt, the Iran hostage crisis and negotiations on the use of atomic weapons with the Soviet Union.
