Carlos Menem died: 'He was held by my mother's hand', the grief of Zulemita Menem

02/14/2021 2:58 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 02/14/2021 3:25 PM

"

I am very proud of his last name

and I will always wear it with great pride."

With a broken voice, Zulemita Menem said goodbye to her father, former president Carlos Saúl Menem, at the door of the Los Arcos sanatorium, who died this Sunday at the age of 90.

"He left holding my mother's hand (Zulema Yoma)," said the daughter of the former president and who was a senator for La Rioja about the last minutes of her father's life.

Menem's remains

will be buried in the Islamic cemetery

in La Tablada.

along with the remains of Carlitos Menem Jr, his daughter confirmed this: "Although he professed the Catholic religion."

The Government ordered

three days of mourning

for the death of the former president, who will be veiled in the National Congress.

Zulemita Menem.

Behind, Carlos Nahir.

Carlos Saúl Menen died.

Photo: Manrique Fernández Buente

After 2:30 p.m., as soon as she left the door of the Palermo clinic with her half-brother Carlos Nahir, Zulemita said in anguish: "

My father left and fulfilled a mission in this life

. He was fighting until the last moment as he always did. ".

He also stressed that his father was "fighting until the last moment, as he always did" and remarked that "

he left in peace

and accompanied by all the love that we have and are going to have for him."

Zulemita said she will remember her father "as a great man," adding: "They may or may not have agreed with his policies, but he

was a great person

."

And he closed: "Leave a legacy of peace and struggle" ..

Zulemita Menem leaves the Los Arcos Clinic in Palermo where former President Menem died.

Photo: Manrique Fernández Buente

Carlos Saúl Menem was

twice elected President

of the Nation (1989-1999).

Currently, he held a seat in the Senate of the Nation for La Rioja since 2005, and had a mandate until 2023.

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