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David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of Still Life with Bombers (2004) and A Little Too Close to God (2000), and co-author of Shalom Friend: The Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin (1996). He previously edited The Jerusalem Post (2004-2011) and The Jerusalem Report (1998-2004).
In this Oct. 28, 1997 photo, Argentina s President Carlos Menem talks to reporters in Buenos Aires. ( AP Photo/Daniel Muzio, File)
Carlos Menem, the former president of Argentina, died at the weekend, aged 90.
His passing made some headlines he served as president for 10 years, after all, in 1989-99, pardoned the mass-murdering 1976-83 military dictators, overhauled the Argentinian economy, steered his country away from the Soviet embrace and into warm ties with the United States, and was the subject of multiple corruption investigations, only avoiding jail when convicted for arms trafficking thanks to parliamentary immunity.
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Pourquoi Carlos Menem, mort à 90 ans, n est pas de l histoire ancienne
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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.
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Buenos Aires –Former Argentine President Carlos Menem died on Sunday, his daughter, Zulema Menem, has confirmed to CNN. He was 90 years old.
Menem took office in July 1989 and promoted laws to reform the government and the economy after his predecessor, Raúl Alfonsín, resigned in the middle of a deep financial crisis caused by hyperinflation. Menem privatized some companies that had until that point been under state authority and was able to get inflation under control.
Menem left office in 1999 after unsuccessfully trying to modify the constitution to run for a third term. He ran again for the presidency in 2003, obtaining the highest percentage of votes during the first round of elections, but ultimately decided against advancing to the second round.