A piquetero is a member of a group that has blocked a street with the purpose of demonstrating and calling attention over a particular issue or demand. The word is a neologism in Argentine Spanish, coming from piquete, that is, its specific meaning as a standing or walking demonstration of protest in a significant spot.
Piqueteros at a protest rally, September 2005
Protesters deface a facility of SIDE.
Carlos Saúl Menem was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. He led Argentina as president during the 1990s and implemented a free market liberalization. He served as President of the Justicialist Party for thirteen years, and his political approach became known as Menemism.
Official portrait, 1995
Carlos Menem (right) meets the elected president Héctor Cámpora in 1973.
Carlos Menem and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1997)
Menem, in the 1999 campaign