02/14/2021 3:45 PM
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Updated 02/14/2021 3:45 PM
Carlos Saúl Menem died this Sunday, at the age of 90, and throughout his two terms as President of the Nation, he left a trail of phrases that marked the 90s and remained in the history of Argentine politics.
Here are some of the most famous phrases of the former Riojan governor, former president and senator with a mandate until 2023, which some users also chose to remember through social networks.
The most remembered phrases of Carlos Menem
"Follow me, I will not disappoint you"
The
slogan
of the
1989
proselytizing campaign
, which led him to the Presidency of the Nation, was pronounced at the end of each speech in his acts.
"Branch that stops, branch that closes"
The warning of the then president Carlos Menem came in the middle of
the privatization process
of the railway services, with calls for strike by the unions.
"We are bad, but we are doing well"
The phrase was pronounced during the first months of his first government, when
hyperinflation was still impacting
the Argentine economy.
"In 1995 we are going to go there to take a boat ride, to drink mate, to bathe and to fish"
The prediction of the then President came from his policy of
sanitation of the Riachuelo
, appointing María Julia Alsogaray at the head of the Secretariat of Natural Resources and Human Environment, promising to "clean the Riachuelo in 1000 days", something that never happened.
"I will govern for poor children who are hungry and rich children who are sad"
These words were pronounced
in the middle of the presidential campaign
for the 1989 elections, which he would end up winning against the radical candidate Eduardo Angeloz.
"My bedside book is the complete works of Socrates"
Carlos Menem's mistake -
the classical Greek philosopher never published
- occurred during a ceremony at the Government House.
Also, during a tribute to Jorge Luis Borges, he assured that he had read all his novels, when the Argentine writer only wrote stories and poems.
"Do not fear, you go with Carlos Menem and his star"
He used this phrase in an act
paraphrasing the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar
, who said to his men: 'Fear not, you go with Caesar and his star.'
He also said it on a flight between Oceania and Southeast Asia, when the plane in which the Argentine delegation was traveling was shaken by strong turbulence.
"They are going to go back to the stratosphere"
The phrase was during the
opening of the 1996 school year
in a school in Salta, where he promised to "tender
a space flight system
, through which from a platform that may be installed in the province of Córdoba. Those spaceships, with all the security and by having, they will leave the atmosphere, and from there choose the place where they want to go "
"Brothers of my country"
The usual way to start your public addresses.
"To triumph, to triumph"
The usual way to end your campaign speeches.
"Salariazo and productive reactivation"
Both of the promises of the 1989 campaign, which he never kept.
"By the middle of my next term, we will beat unemployment"
Another of his remembered promises during the
1995 electoral campaign
, which would lead him to be reelected as President of the Nation.
"Power is not a profit"
Menem gave that explanation after excluding his ex-wife, Zulema Yoma, from the Olivos Presidential House before finally divorcing.
"I don't wear overcoats, I prefer a poncho"
Phrase said
to Queen Elizabeth II in 1998
during her visit to the United Kingdom while placing a vicuña scarf on the monarch's shoulders.
"My intuition is telling me that before the year 2000, the Malvinas will return to the power of the Argentine Republic"
He said it during a speech during his last presidential term.
"Why am I going to call Kirchner if he lost?"
The phrase was said to the press after obtaining first place
in the 2003 elections
, which forced a second round of elections to which he would not stand as a candidate.
"The second round will be a formal step, nothing more. We are going to win resoundingly"
He said it during the 2003 campaign in which he faced Nestor Kirchner although, finally, he
decided not to participate
in the second electoral round.
"The Ferrari is mine"
"Yes, what he says is true, but I am the President! The Ferrari is mine, why am I going to sell it? It is mine, mine!"
With these statements, the former president addressed, in 1991, the
scandal over the luxury car
that he had received as a gift from an Italian businessman who wanted to win the concession of a road work.
Menem had traveled with the red Ferrari from Olivos to Pinamar, taking the speedometer to 190 km / h.
The controversial Ferrari Testarossa that produced a scandal during the presidency of Carlos Menem.
Photo file.
Argentina, get up and walk! "
The
biblical phrases were different from the constant
references of President Carlos Menem, like that which refers to the miracle of Jesus to Lazarus.
“Before the gaze of God and the testimony of History, I want to proclaim: Argentina, get up and walk!
"I walked in through the front door and out of the front door"
He said it
when leaving a sanatorium in 2006
, where he had gone for a check-up.
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