Argentina’s Ex-President Menem Sentenced to 7 Years of Prison
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An Argentine court sentenced former President Carlos Menem to seven years in prison for smuggling weapons to Croatia during the Yugoslav civil war of the 1990s, and to Ecuador.
A federal court in Buenos Aires will ask the Senate to lift the 82-year-old Peronist party supporter’s immunity from imprisonment so he can serve out the sentence.