Carlos Menem
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Carlos Sal Menem (born July 2, 1930) is an Argentine politician who served as president of Argentina from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999.
Since being elected as Senator for La Rioja Province on December 10, 2005, he has been a Senator for La Rioja Province. Menem, who was born in Anillaco, became a Peronist on a visit to Buenos Aires.
He was the head of the party in La Rioja, Spain, and was elected governor in 1973.
He was deposed and jailed during the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and he was elected governor again in 1983.
He defeated Buenos Aires governor Antonio Cafiero in the primary elections for 1989 presidential elections, which he won.
Hyperinflation compelled outgoing president Ral Alfonsn to resign early, shortening the presidential transition. Menem embraced the Washington Consensus and tackled inflation with the Convertibility initiative in 1991.
The scheme was complemented by a string of privatizations, and it was a success.
Argentina re-established diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, which had been on hold since the 1982 Falklands War, and established special relations with the US.
Two terrorist attacks struck the country.
Peronist victories in the 1993 midterm elections prompted Alfonsn to sign the Pact of Olivos for the 1994 edition of the Argentine Constitution.
Menem was able to run for re-election in 1995, which he gained.
A new economic crisis has arisen, and the competing sides have formed a political alliance that gained the 1997 midterm and the 1999 presidential election. Menem ran for president again in 2003, but after losing in a likely defeat against Néstor Kirchner, he decided to vote against the candidate, effectively handing over the presidency to Kirchner.
In 2005, he was elected senator for La Rioja.
At 89, he is Argentina's longest-lived former president.
Early life and education
Carlos Sal Menem was born in Anillaco, a small town in Argentina's rugged north. His parents, Saul Menem and Mohibe Akil, were Syrian nationals from Yabroud who had immigrated to Argentina. He attended primary and high school in La Rioja and joined a basketball team during his university years. In 1951, he and the team made Buenos Aires, and the president Juan Perón and his wife Eva Perón met. Menem was inspired by this experience to become a Peronist. He studied law at the National University of Córdoba, graduating in 1955.
Menem was briefly jailed after President Juan Perón's overthrowrow in 1955. He later became the successor to the Peronist Party, the Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista). (PJ) In 1973, he was elected president of the La Rioja Province chapter. He was involved in the flight to Spain that brought Perón back to Argentina after his long exile in that capacity. Menem did not appear in the event, according to Peronist politician Juan Manuel Abal Medina, who said he did not take part in the celebration.