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Son of Syrian immigrants Saúl Menem and Mohibe Akil, of Sunni Muslim religion (although he was baptized in the Catholic faith) and arrived in Argentina in the second decade of the 20th century, former President Carlos Menem died this Sunday, February 14 at the 90 years.
Twice governor of La Rioja, twice president and uninterrupted national senator during the last 15 years, “el Carlos” combined show, politics and tragedy in his presidency, and although the shadow of corruption was strong during his government, many They often remember him as the president of 1 to 1 (one peso, one dollar), the one with pizza and champagne, the one who loved golf, the one who loved meeting celebrities, and the one with zero inflation.
His life was full of iconic moments, such as when he expelled his entire family from the Quinta Presidencial or married Cecilia Bolocco. In addition to the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and AMIA, and the eternally mysterious explosion of the arms factory in Río Tercero (Córdoba), during his government he witnessed the death of his son, Carlitos, due to an incident in a helicopter. The Menems firmly assure that it was murder.
In 1951, at age 30, during a trip to Buenos Aires, he met President Juan Domingo Perón and his wife, Eva Duarte de Perón, an experience that would determine his membership in the Justicialista Movement founded and led by the general. In 1955 he finished his law degree at the University of Córdoba and began to practice law in his native province as a public defender of political prisoners imprisoned as a result of the military coup of that year.
Two years later, after having spent several months in jail for supporting a coup attempt against the Pedro Eugenio Aramburu regime, he founded the Peronist Youth of La Rioja and went on to legally assist the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) until 1970. In In the 1973 elections, the first with direct participation of Peronism since 1955 under the formula of the Justicialista Liberation Front (Frejuli), Menem won the government of La Rioja with 67% of the votes. Three years later, he was arrested after the coup that toppled Isabel Perón.
Menem remained a prisoner on a ship anchored in Buenos Aires until, when the dictatorship fell, he was reelected governor with 54% of the votes. On May 14, 1989, as a candidate of the Popular Justicialist Front (Frejupo), Menem prevailed over the candidate of the radical ruling party, Eduardo César Angeloz, with 49.3% of the votes, and prematurely succeeded the radical Raúl Alfonsin, whose government he was exhausted by an economic crisis.
His re-election occurred in 1995, shortly after the death of his son, and he ruled until 1999. The photo of the handover of command to radical Fernando De la Rúa is iconic and by then the Rioja was already thinking of returning to the Casa Rosada in Las 2003 elections. After the very serious crisis, which is attributed to the economic policies of Menem and his Minister of Economy, Domingo Cavallo, he appeared to compete with Néstor Kirchner, a struggle that at the last moment he preferred not to end.
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