Former Argentine President Carlos Menem (1989-1999), who is 90 years old, is in an induced coma in the hospital of Buenos Aires in which he has been hospitalized for more than a week, after experiencing kidney failure amid his delicate health, sources around him confirmed to Efe on Thursday.
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The veteran Peronist politician was admitted to Sanatorio Los Arcos in the Argentinian capital on December 15 for a medical check-up of the prostate, and There he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that complicated his heart problems.
In recent days, he had reportedly recorded a slight improvement, up until this morning the sources explained that he was suffering from “kidney decompensation” and fell into a coma.
“He is vulnerable, we are going to pray in the name of God to see if he recovers,” Zulema Yoma, exposa of the current senator and one of his closest people, told EFE.
He is vulnerable, we will pray in the name of God to see if he recovers
The former head of state, who has been hospitalized two more times this year -In June because of a photo of pneumonia that forced him to be transferred to intensive care, and at the end of July to conduct several examinations- he turned 90 on July 2, while in hospital.
He was a lawyer by profession and was president for two consecutive terms, from 1989 to 1999, after serving as governor of La Rioja, his native province, between 1973 and 1976. that he was arrested after the coup that led to the last dictatorship (1976-1983) – and again from 1983 until he started his presidential campaign in 1987.
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His management as head of state was characterized by the transformation of the economy, with a great commercial opening and an intense process of privatization of public companies, as well as as a result of allegations of corruption, he has had to appear in court in recent years while serving as a senator, a position he has held since 2005.
EFE
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