Syrian Argentines
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Syrian Argentines are Argentine citizens of Syrian descent or Syrian-born people who reside in Argentina, mainly Arab Christians. Argentina has the second highest number of Syrians in South America af
President Agustín P. Justo at the inauguration of the Syrian-Lebanese School in Argentina
"Paz para Siria" (Peace for Syria, in Spanish), the message of the Arab Argentine community during the opening parade of the XXXIV National Immigrant Festival in Oberá, Misiones.
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
Syrian Argentines
…government launched the "Syria Program" to help the facilitate the arrival of refugees, being the second country to adopt such programs after Uruguay. Carlos Menem (1930–2021), former President of Argentina Vicente Saadi (1913–1988), national senator and governor of Catamarca Province…
Official portrait, 1995
Carlos Menem and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1997)
Menem, in the 1999 campaign
Menem with Bill Clinton in June 1993