News of carlos menem

Hugo Moyano: ‘We’ve always defended workers to the death’

09-07-2021 20:32 Veteran teamster and union leader Hugo Moyano riffs on his meteoric rise through the labour movement, relationships with Argentina’s presidents and why he is targeted for being on the side of the worker.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

OBITUARY:CARLOS SAÚL MENEM (1930-2021)

Carlos Menem: Peronist, president, playboy

20-02-2021 08:07 Late former governor, senator and president – who led the nation for a decade between 1989 and 1999, the longest period of a democratic leader in modern-day Argentina – dies aged 90 at a hospital in Buenos Aires.

by Michael Soltys

CARLOS MENEM (1930-2021)

The first post-modern president

20-02-2021 07:56 Menem was the emblem of Argentina’s eternal aspiration to be a First World cosmopolitan society.

by Gustavo González

CARLOS MENEM (1930-2021)

Choose your own Menem

20-02-2021 07:46 As from Menem, public officials who got rich on the job began to be the rule rather than the exception.

by Javier Calvo

AND THAT REMINDS ME...

Charlie was my darling

20-02-2021 07:40 A selection of purely personal memories and perceptions of Carlos Menem, including some that differ from conventional wisdom.

by Michael Soltys

AS I SEE IT

A most unlikely reformer

20-02-2021 07:31 Carlos Menem may have been the king of kitsch, but he was also something else.

by James Neilson

THE WEEK IN ARGENTINA

Menem moments

20-02-2021 07:02 Carlos Menem dominated Argentine politics for a decade. And his death, for a moment, meant he was all over the news once more.

by Martín Gambarotta

EDITORIAL

Menem: A man of his times – and ours

20-02-2021 06:08 Despite his passing, Carlos Menem’s spirit remains very much around, in both the current government and the country as a whole.

CARLOS MENEM (1930-2021)

Menem buried with military honours at ceremony in capital

16-02-2021 11:46 Former president Carlos Menem was laid to rest on Monday, granted military honours at a small ceremony on the outskirts of the capital.

Death of ex-president

Former president Carlos Menem passes away aged 90

14-02-2021 13:57 Peronist leader, who led the nation for a decade between 1989 and 1999, passes away at a hospital in Buenos Aires.

OBITUARY

Menem, ex-president who led Argentina for 10 years, dies at 90

14-02-2021 13:17 Former president, whose economic policies quashed hyperinflation during the 1990s but sowed the seeds for what became the largest debt default in history, has died. He was 90.

ex-president discharged

Former president Carlos Menem released from hospital

03-07-2020 23:28 Menem, who turned 90 on Thursday, was admitted to intensive care at the Los Arcos private clinic in Buenos Aires on Thursday suffering breathing difficulties.

INTENSIVE CARE

Ex-president Carlos Menem back in hospital with breathing difficulties

02-07-2020 16:17 Former president, who turned 90 on Thursday, re-admitted to hospital just three days after being discharged. He remains in an intensive care unit.

Former president

Carlos Menem leaves hospital after pneumonia scare

30-06-2020 12:41 Former president and senator for La Rioja Province was discharged from hospital on Monday after two weeks receiving treatment for pneumonia.

Former president

Ex-president Carlos Menem admitted to intensive care with pneumonia

14-06-2020 12:15 Menem hospitalised with severe pneumonia. Former head of state tested for coronavirus, but results came back negative.

PESOS v DOLLARS

Dollars under the mattress: Argentina's preferred way of saving

01-03-2020 20:15 Hit it by decades of inflation, recessions and cyclical devaluations, many Argentines prefer to take refuge in the dollar as a way of saving and hide their money "under the mattress."

Kirchners in Cuba

CFK shares first photo with daughter Florencia in Havana

11-02-2020 12:20 Vice-president shares first image in months of her filmmaker daughter, who has been in Cuba for nearly one year receiving medical treatment.

LA RURAL SALE

Court clears Menem and Cavallo over 1991 sale of La Rural building

27-12-2019 17:56 The sale of the Rural Society’s fairground building, which prosecutors believe should have been valued close to US$130 million, was sold for just US$30 million by decree in 1991.

ELECTION 2019

Fernández to toughen Argentina’s stance on Malvinas, if elected

18-10-2019 07:00 Frente de Todos frontrunner plans to review all of Argentina’s bilateral agreements with the United Kingdom dating back to 1989 if elected, according to reports in local outlets.