Former Argentine President Carlos Menem (1989-1999), 90, is in an induced coma at a hospital in Buenos Aires in which he has been hospitalized for more than a week after suffering from kidney failure in the middle of his delicate state of health, Sources around him confirmed this Thursday to Efe.
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The veteran Peronist politician was hospitalized on December 15 at the Sanatorio Los Arcos in the Argentine capital for a medical prostate check and already There he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that complicated his heart problems.
In recent days, he has reported a slight improvement, until this morning sources explained that he suffered “kidney decompensation” and was induced into a coma.
“He is delicate, we will pray in the name of God to see if he recovers,” Zulema Yoma, the current senator and one of his closest people, told EFE.
He is delicate, we will pray in the name of God to see if he recovers
The former head of state, who was hospitalized this year on two other occasions -In June due to an image of pneumonia that forced him to be transferred to the intensive care unit, and at the end of July to perform several studies- he turned 90 on July 2, while he was hospitalized.
A lawyer by profession, he was president for two consecutive terms, from 1989 to 1999, after being governor of La Rioja, his home province, between 1973 and 1976 – the year in that he was arrested after the coup that led to the last dictatorship (1976-1983) – and again from 1983 until he began his presidential campaign in 1987.
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His leadership as head of state was marked by the transformation into an economy, with a great commercial openness and an intense process of privatization of public companies, but also because of allegations of corruption, he has had to face in court in recent years, while serving as a senator, a position he has held since 2005.
EFE
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