Argentina: The death of ex-president Carlos Saúl Menem
Argentine ex-president Carlos Menem died on February 14 at the age of 90. Menem’s health had deteriorated significantly since June 2020, due to persistent bacterial infections.
Widely hated by Argentine workers for his destruction of jobs and living standards in the 1990s, his death evoked tributes from the country’s Peronist President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, as well as from the right-wing ex-president Mauricio Macri and other Peronist and Radical Party leaders.
Inauguration of Carlos Menem in 1989
While the various parties and fronts that represent the politics of Pabloism, Morenismo and Guevaraism, such as the pseudo-left FIT and its main constituents the PTS (Socialist Workers Party) and PO (Workers Party), distanced themselves from this cynical spectacle, they avoided any mention of their own complicity and political betrayals that facilitated Menem’s rise to power and cons