News of carlos menem

Ports in a storm

25-07-2022 15:56 Why is Boris Johnson out of office, but Alberto Fernández clings on? The simplest answer to that question lies in the difference between parliamentary and presidential democracy.

by James Neilson

AMIA Bombing

Renewed calls for justice 28 years after attack on AMIA Jewish Centre

19-07-2022 13:32 Argentine Jews are still waiting for justice, nearly 30 years after a terrorist attack which killed 85. They demonstrated their frustration with the lack of answers this Monday outside the rebuilt Jewish Centre.

AND THAT REMINDS ME…

The maybes of May

14-05-2022 00:01 Today’s anniversary is nowhere in the current agenda with plenty of issues to absorb our attention, yet stopping to recall the Menem years would not go amiss.

by Michael Soltys

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

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.