Tag: Carlos Menem

• Saturday, June 30th 2012 - 04:17 UTC

  Repsol donated a million dollars to the campaign of President Kirchner in 2003

  

  The nationalization of YPF, seized from Spain’s Repsol by Argentine president Cristina Fernandez is again a source of controversy following the disclosure by an investigative journalist that the Spanish oil corporation in 2003 helped finance the presidential election of Nestor Kirchner as well as the other candidate in the run-off, Carlos Menem.

• Sunday, April 1st 2012 - 07:54 UTC

  Former president to stand trial in relation to Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack

  

  Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was ordered Friday to stand trial for obstruction of justice in a probe of the 1994 bombing of a building housing Jewish charity that killed 85 people.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 21:23 UTC

  ”Cristina Fernandez, the (elected) president with most power in the history of Argentina”

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has more power than Juan Domingo Peron “ever had” and Peronism in Argentina is guarantee of governance, according to Carlos Corach a former Interior minister from former President Carlos Menem administration and a respected solicitor and political analyst.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Oil might lubricate the process to real dialogue in the South Atlantic

  

  The second of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler.

• Saturday, October 29th 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Argentina had no chance in the Malvinas war: it was fighting the ‘Holy Alliance’

  

  “Malvinas is a sacred cause for the Argentines used by the military with a spurious purpose: to remain in power” according to Juan Bautista ‘Tata’ Yoffre author of the recently launched book “1982” on the Falklands/Malvinas conflict.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 20:48 UTC

  Menem re-elected Senator says the only post he’s missing is ‘Pope’

  

  Former president Carlos Menem who ruled Argentina for ten years running and was re-elected on Sunday as one of three Senators for his home province of La Rioja, said the only post he’s missing to be named for is ‘Pope’.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Menem acquitted from gun running to Ecuador and Croatia

  

  Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted in connection with the case of gun running to Ecuador and Croatia between the years 1991 and 1995.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 07:32 UTC

  Argentine provincial elections confirm support for President Cristina Fernandez

  

  “This victory belongs to the President (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner)” said governor elect of the Argentine province of La Rioja, Luis Beder Herrera after he swept with 67% of ballots in Sunday’s election.

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

  Menem and former beauty queen are formally divorced

  

  Former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989/1999) and Chilean ex Miss Universe and CNN television presenter Cecilia Bolocco were formally divorced by a Buenos Aires court last week.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 05:34 UTC

  Menem forecasts Cristina’s re-election in October but also the end of Kirchnerism

  

  Former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989/1999) forecasted ‘a hands-down’ victory for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner next October, although he also forecasted that when her four years are up “it will be the end of Kirchnerism”.