Argentines of Syrian Descent - Carlos Menem (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carlos Sal Menem (born July 2, 1930) is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Carlos Robert Sal Menem Akil was born in 1930 in Anillaco, a small town in the mountainous north of La Rioja Province, Argentina. His parents were immigrants from the Syrian village of Yabrud (part of the Ottoman Empire when they departed), and as a young man, he joined his father as a traveling salesman dealing in feed and sundry items. Menem enrolled in the National University of Cordoba, and received a juris doctor in 1955. As a Law student, he became a vocal Peronist, and after President Juan Pern's overthrow that year, he was briefly incarcerated. He later joined the Peronist Party's successor, the Justicialist Party, and was elected President of its La Rioja Province chapter, in 1963. Menem after his 1973 victory. Governor Menem in 1983. Menem was elected Governor of La Rioja in 1973, a prominent post that left him exposed after the overthrow of President Isabel Martnez de Pern in March 1976. Having been close to La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli (a Third World Priest opposed by much of Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church), he was imprisoned by the military junta in Formosa Province until 1981, reportedly tortured in the process. In October 1983, with the collapse of military rule, Menem was elected once again as Governor of La Rioja, and reelected in 1987. During this second turn at the Governor's desk, Menem implemented generous corporate tax exemptions, attracting the first sizable presence of light manufacturing his province had ever seen. The pragmatic Governor Menem, nevertheless, kept provincial payrolls well-padded. Campaigning as a maverick within his own party, he defeated longtime Peronist leader An... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=49966