Menem will appeal sentence to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons

Friday, June 14th 2013 - 03:32 UTC

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An Argentine court sentenced former President Carlos Menem to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons to Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war of the 1990s, and to Ecuador. Last year Menem was acquitted along with 17 other defendants, but the Cassation Court convicted 12 of them and urged the judges to change the verdicts. Read full article

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God.Is.An.Illusion
I wonder who had more plastic surgery, Menem or KRF?
Read Luis Majul's `The Masks of Argentina' (Las Mascaras de la Argentina) on plastic surgery in Argentina.
Jun 14th, 2013 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Optimus_Princeps
He does not deserve a single breath of free air.
Jun 14th, 2013 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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bushpilot
Was this ex-president ever accused of pillaging the coffers for his personal bank account?

Will there some day in the future be any politicians that might try to put the current president in jail for a while? Or no?
Jun 15th, 2013 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Usurping Pirate
@3# Pillaging ? Menem ? Not 'arf Guv . As bad as Cristina , if not worse .
He was also responsible for the wholesale dismantling of the railways ,the legacy of which was felt in yet another crash on thursday .
Jun 15th, 2013 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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