Buenos Aires (EFE) .
As Prime Video detailed, this “fictional drama based on real events” is directed by Ariel Winograd. The cast includes Juan Minujín, Griselda Siciliani, Jorgelina Aruzzi and Marco Antonio Caponi.
“The series is located in Argentina in the 90s, from Menem’s rise to power and the consequent economic convertibility to the terrorist attacks that took place in Buenos Aires. Menem is the story of power, political controversy, and social tragedy,” said the production.
Although it was not specified when its premiere will be, it was noted that the series, which is created and produced by Mariano Varela, will be released exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries.
In an interview with EFE last March, Sbaraglia, 52, announced that filming for one of the “most important” characters of his career would begin in June.
Carlos Menem: a controversial life
Of Syrian origin and a lawyer, Menem (1930-2021) was president for two consecutive terms, from 1989 to 1999, after having been governor of La Rioja, his native province, between 1973 and 1976 – the year in which he was arrested after the coup de State that derived in the last dictatorship (1976-1983)- and again from 1983 until he began his campaign for the 1989 presidential elections.
His management was marked by the transformation in the economy, with a great commercial opening and an intense process of privatization of public companies, but also by accusations of corruption and shocking events, such as the terrorist attacks of 1992 and 1994 against the Embassy of Israel. and the Jewish mutual AMIA, respectively.
His years in power are also remembered for the famous “one by one” parity between the peso and the dollar that managed to tame inflation. Although the Menemist model worked during his first term, during the second it was showing signs of exhaustion and for many it laid the foundations for the serious crisis unleashed in 2001, already with Fernando de la Rúa as president.
At the same time, no less remembered is the ‘showman’ Menem, who came to run at 200 kilometers per hour in his Ferrari, promised trips to the stratosphere, expelled his wife and children from the presidential residence and received Madonna in style. and The Rolling Stones.