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.
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.
The second of a planned series of extended political articles written exclusively for the Penguin News web site by Deputy Editor John Fowler.
“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.
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’.
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.
“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.
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.
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”.
Spain’s main oil company Repsol has listed 26.21 million shares of YPF on the New York Stock Exchange for 1.08 billion US dollars as part of a plan to divest its stake in its Argentine unit.