Carlos Menem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Carlos Menem

Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1930

Place of Birth: Anillaco, Argentina

Profession: lawyer, businessperson, politician

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Carlos Menem

  • Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) is an Argentine politician who was president of Argentina from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999.
  • He has been a Senator for La Rioja Province since 10 December 2005. Born in Anillaco, Menem became a Peronist during a visit to Buenos Aires.
  • He led the party in his home province of La Rioja, and was elected governor in 1973.
  • He was deposed and detained during the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and was elected governor again in 1983.
  • He defeated the Buenos Aires governor Antonio Cafiero in the primary elections for the 1989 presidential elections, which he won.
  • Hyperinflation forced outgoing president Raúl Alfonsín to resign early, shortening the presidential transition. Menem supported the Washington Consensus, and tackled inflation with the Convertibility plan in 1991.
  • The plan was complemented by a series of privatizations, and was a success.
  • Argentina re-established diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, suspended since the 1982 Falklands War, and developed special relations with the United States.
  • The country suffered two terrorist attacks.
  • The Peronist victory in the 1993 midterm elections allowed him to force Alfonsín to sign the Pact of Olivos for the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution.
  • This amendment allowed Menem to run for re-election in 1995, which he won.
  • A new economic crisis began, and the opposing parties formed a political coalition that won the 1997 midterm elections and the 1999 presidential election. Menem ran for the presidency again in 2003, but faced with a likely defeat in a ballotage against Néstor Kirchner, he chose to pull out of the ballotage, effectively handing the presidency to Kirchner.
  • He was elected senator for La Rioja in 2005.
  • At 89, he is currently the oldest living former Argentine president.

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