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Former Argentine President Carlos Menem, what’s wrong with it 90 years, is found in induced coma in the Buenos Aires hospital where he has been admitted for more than a week, after suffering a kidney failure in the midst of poor health, confirmed this Thursday to Efe sources in your environment.
The veteran Peronist politician was admitted on December 15 to the Sanatorio Los Arcos in the Argentine capital for a prostate medical check-up, and there he was diagnosed with a urinary infection that complicated his heart problems.
In recent days, it was reported, he had registered a slight improvement, until this morning sources explained that he suffered a “renal decompensation” and was induced to coma.
“He is delicate, we are going to pray for the name of God to see if he recovers,” he told Efe Zulema Yoma, ex-wife of the current senator and one of his closest people.
The former head of state, who this year was hospitalized on two other occasions – in June for a picture of pneumonia that forced him to be transferred to the intensive care unit, and at the end of July to carry out various studies – turned 90 on July 2 past, while he was hospitalized.
Lawyer by profession, was president in two consecutive terms, from 1989 to 1999, after having been governor of La Rioja, his native province, between 1973 and 1976 – the year in which he was arrested after the coup that led to the last dictatorship (1976-1983) – and again since 1983 until in 1987 he began his presidential campaign.
His tenure as head of state was marked by the transformation of the economy, with a great commercial opening and an intense process of privatization of public companies, but also by accusations of corruption, which he has had to face in court in recent years, while serving as a senator, a position he has held since 2005.
