Carlos Saúl Menem tí wọ́n bí ní ọjọ́ kejì oṣù keje ọdún 1930, tí ó ṣaláìsí ní ọjọ́ kẹrìnlá oṣù kejì ọdún 2021, jẹ́ agbẹjọ́rò àti olóṣèlú tí ó jẹ́ Ààrẹ orílẹ̀-èdè Argentina láàrín ọdún 1989 sí ọdún1999. Òun ni wọ́n gbà wípé ó jẹ́ bàbá ìsàlẹ̀ fún Peronist ní orílẹ̀-èdè Agentina àti alátìlẹyìn economically liberal. Ó dari orílẹ̀-èdè Argentina gẹ́gẹ́ bí Ààrẹ ní àárín ọdún 1990, ó sì ṣe agbékalẹ̀ free market liberalization lásìkò tirẹ̀. Ó ṣe Ààrẹ fún ọdún mẹ́tàlá gbáko lábẹ́ abùradà ẹgbẹ́ ìṣèlú Justicialist Party láti ọdún 1990 sí 2001 àti 2001 sí 2003, ìlànà ìṣèlú ni wọ́n pè ní Federal Peronism.[1]

Carlos Menem

Official presidential portrait, 1995
President of Argentina
In office
8 July 1989 – 10 December 1999
Vice President
AsíwájúRaúl Alfonsín
Arọ́pòFernando de la Rúa
National Senator
In office
10 December 2005 – 14 February 2021
AsíwájúEduardo Menem
ConstituencyLa Rioja
President of the Justicialist Party
In office
28 November 2001 – 11 June 2003
AsíwájúRubén Marín
Arọ́pòEduardo Fellner
In office
10 August 1990 – 13 June 2001
AsíwájúAntonio Cafiero
Arọ́pòRubén Marín
Governor of La Rioja
In office
10 December 1983 – 8 July 1989
Vice GovernorAlberto Gregorio Cavero
AsíwájúGuillermo Jorge Piastrellini (de facto)
Arọ́pòAlberto Gregorio Cavero
In office
25 May 1973 – 24 March 1976
Vice GovernorLibardo Sánchez
AsíwájúJulio Raúl Luchesi (de facto)
Arọ́pòOsvaldo Héctor Pérez Battaglia (de facto)
Àwọn àlàyé onítòhún
Ọjọ́ìbí
Carlos Saúl Menem

(1930-07-02)2 Oṣù Keje 1930
Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina
Aláìsí14 February 2021(2021-02-14) (ọmọ ọdún 90)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Resting placeSan Justo Islamic Cemetery
Ẹgbẹ́ olóṣèlúJusticialist Party
Other political
affiliations
  • Front for Loyalty (2003)
  • Justicialist Popular Unity Front (1989–1995)
(Àwọn) olólùfẹ́
Àwọn ọmọ4, including Zulemita
RelativesEduardo Menem (brother)
Signature

Wọ́n bi ní ìlú Anillaco sínú ẹbí ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè Syrian. Wọ́n tó Me be ní ìlànà ẹ̀sìn Mùsùlùmí ,[2] àmó ó padà gba ẹ̀sìn kìrìstẹ́nì lábẹ́ ìjọ Aguda ti Roman Catholicism látàrí kí ó lè kópa nínú ìṣèlú.[lower-alpha 1] Menem became a Peronist during a visit to Buenos Aires. He led the party in his home province of La Rioja and was elected governor in 1973. He was deposed and detained during the 1976 Argentine coup d'état and was elected governor again in 1983. He defeated the Buenos Aires governor Antonio Cafiero in the primary elections for the 1989 presidential elections. Hyperinflation and riots forced outgoing president Raúl Alfonsín to resign early, shortening the presidential transition.

Menem supported the Washington Consensus and tackled inflation with the Convertibility plan in 1991. The plan was complemented by a series of privatizations and was initially a success. Argentina re-established diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, suspended since the 1982 Falklands War, and developed special relations with the United States. The country suffered two terrorist attacks. The Peronist victory in the 1993 midterm elections allowed him to persuade Alfonsín (by then leader of the opposition party UCR) to sign the Pact of Olivos for the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution. This amendment allowed Menem to run for re-election in 1995, which he won. A new economic crisis began, and the opposing parties formed a political coalition winning the 1997 midterm elections and the 1999 presidential election.[1]

He was investigated on various criminal and corruption charges, including illegal arms trafficking (he was sentenced to seven years in prison), embezzlement of public funds (he was sentenced four and half years to prison), extortion and bribery (in both of which he was declared innocent). His position as senator earned him immunity from incarceration.[3][4]

Menem ran for the presidency again in 2003, but faced with a likely defeat in a ballotage against Néstor Kirchner, he chose to pull out, effectively handing the presidency to Kirchner. He was elected senator for La Rioja in 2005. By the time of his death in 2021 at age 90, he was the oldest living former Argentine president.[lower-alpha 2] He is regarded as a polarizing figure in Argentina, mostly due to corruption and economic mismanagement throughout his Presidency


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