Carlos Menem Quotes

Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999

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Carlos Saúl Menem (Anillaco, La Rioja, July 2nd 1930) is an Argentine politician and lawyer. He held the position of President of the Nation between 1989 and 1999. As President, he identified as a right-wing "Federal Peronist" who supported the Washington Consensus. He implemented neoliberal economic policies which privatized many state-run industries and pegged the Argentine peso to the U.S. dollar. He also pursued closer diplomatic relations with the United States, normalized diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom for the first time since the Falklands War, and made significant amendments to the Argentine Constitution in 1994 under a deal with Raúl Alfonsín's left-wing opposition. Although Menem's economic policies were initially successful, his administration's tax cuts, heavy government borrowing, and inability to maintain the peso's fixed exchange rate with the dollar eventually resulted in a severe deficit and the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression. Menem tried to run for President again in the 2003 Argentine general election but dropped out to avoid a run-off defeat to Néstor Kirchner, and was later investigated for corruption.

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Native Name: Carlos Saúl Menem

Alternative Names: Carlos Saul Menem

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Ante la mirada de Dios y el testimonio de la Historia, yo quiero proclamar: ¡Argentina, levántate y anda!

English: "To those who are speaking about me getting off the elections, I say: Don't even think about it, you don't know the fiber one is made of"

En estos momentos de turbulencia, les voy a dar dos consejos. Como lo hacía Julio César, ese emperador romano. Con el miedo de los tripulantes, los juntaba y les decía 'no temáis, vais con César y su estrella'. Y yo les digo a todos los argentinos: 'no teman, ¡van con Carlos Menem y su estrella!'

English: "We're [doing] bad, but going well."

A triunfar, a triunfar, a triunfar

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English: "I entered through the big door and left through the big door".

Síganme, no los voy a defraudar.

English: "… the transformation of the educational system which is already ongoing. All prima— precary schools will be eliminated."

English: "My intuition is telling me that before year 2000, the Falklands will return to the Argentine Republic's ownership."

Estamos mal, pero vamos bien.

English: "In 1995 we will be going there to travel on boat, drink mate, bathe and fish."

English: "The second round will be a formality, nothing more."

¿Por qué lo voy a llamar a Kirchner si perdió?

English: "We are going to win without question."