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Carlos Menem, Argentine President who brought free-market reform and restored relations with Britain – obituary
Telegraph Obituaries
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Menem, the flamboyant campaigner, in front of a gigantic poster of the former President Juan Peron - Rickey Rogers/ REUTERS
Carlos Menem, the former president of Argentina, who has died aged 90, was a flamboyant, charismatic figure whose two successive terms in office were tainted by scandal and controversy.
Menem was a mass of contradictions – part buffoon, part brilliant politician, with a lust for power and an instinctive understanding of how to keep it.
Unfettered by ideology, he was brought up a Muslim and claimed to be descended from Mohammed, yet he converted to Roman Catholicism (accounts vary as to when, though he claimed to have been christened as a baby by a family retainer) to promote his political career. He was equally chameleon in his political beliefs. ....

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