Carlos Menem Quotes

Argentinean president between 1989 and 1999

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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Por los niños pobres que tienen hambre. Por los niños ricos que tienen tristeza.

English: "Halfway through my next term, we shall defeat unemployment."

Para la mitad de mi próximo mandato, venceremos al desempleo.

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

Mi intuición me está diciendo que antes del año 2000, las Malvinas volverán a poder de la República Argentina.

English: "In these moments of turbulence, I'm going to give you two pieces of advice. As was done by Julius Caesar, that Roman emperor. With the crewmen's fear, he gathered them together and said 'fear not, you go with Caesar and his star'. And I tell all the Argentine people: 'fear not, you go with Carlos Menem and his star!'."

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!'

Ganamos por demolición

English: "I will vote for the estatization of YPF".

Votaré por la estatización de YPF

English: "People who forget their history, repeat that history. As we forgot the happenings on 1955, we were repeating that same history soonly afterwards, tackling the government of Dr. Alfonsín... uh, Frondizi. They're both radicals."

Los pueblos que olvidan su historia, repiten la historia. Como nos olvidamos de los acontecimientos de 1955, estuvimos repitiendo esa misma historia al poco tiempo, tumbando al gobierno del Dr. Alfonsín... eh, Frondizi. Son radicales los dos.

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

… la transformación del sistema educativo que ya está en marcha. Se eliminarán totalmente las escuelas prima— precarias.

Pende sobre nuestras cabezas la espada de Penélope.

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