Carlos Menem, former president of Argentina, dies aged 90

Menem, who served as president from 1989 to 1999, had been hospitalised for pneumonia several times in recent months.

Argentina’s former President Carlos Menem has died at age 90 in Buenos Aires, the country’s Telam news agency and other media outlets reported on Sunday. Menem, who served two terms as president from 1989 to 1999 during which he pursued an aggressive privatisation policy, had been hospitalised several times in recent months for pneumonia. “It is with deep regret that I learned of the death of Carlos Saul Menem,” Argentina President Alberto Fernandez said on Twitter.