Argentine Ex-president Menem Buried With Military Honors
02/15/21 AT 5:50 PM
Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was buried Monday in a ceremony with military honors in a Buenos Aires Islamic cemetery next to his late son. Although he professed the Catholic religion, he will rest alongside my brother Carlos Menem, Jr, said the ex-leader s daughter Zulemita Menem. A handout picture released by the Argentine Senate shows the honour guards carrying the coffin of late former Argentine president (1989-1999) Carlos Menem during the funeral cortege at the Congress in Buenos Aires Photo: Comunicacion Senado / CHARLY DIAZ AZCUE
Menem, Jr died in a helicopter crash in 1995 that his mother, Zulema Yoma, claimed was a terrorist attack and that Menem himself later blamed on the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 15 Argentina’s former president Carlos Menem, who marked his country with a neoliberal approach to the economy, died in a Buenos Aires clinic yesterday at the age of 90. Menem had been in poor health and was hospitalised several times in recent months for pneumonia..
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