La Rioja Province, Argentina
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La Rioja, officially Province of La Rioja is a province of Argentina located in the west of the country. The landscape of the province consists of a series of arid to semi-arid mountain ranges and agr
The Talampaya National Park
Carlos Saúl Menem was the only Argentine president of Arab descent and raised as a Muslim
Vineyard in Chilecito.
Hangliding in the Famatina valley, La Rioja.
Carlos Menem
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Carlos Saúl Menem was an Argentine politician who served as the president of Argentina for ten years, from 1989 to 1999. He identified as Peronist, serving as President of the Justicialist Party for 1
La Rioja Province, Argentina
…had been the Ottoman Empire, Saul Menem and his wife were of Armenian and Alawi ancestry. He prospered as a traveling salesman and sent his eldest son, Carlos Menem, to Spain for college. The younger Menem was elected governor of La Rioja Province in March 1973, was imprisoned during the subsequent dictatorship and…
Official portrait, 1995
Carlos Menem and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1997)
Menem, in the 1999 campaign
Menem with Bill Clinton in June 1993