[Menem vs. Zulema. The Human Factor], which referred to contact between Mr.
Menem and his child and to the visit, made in May 1995, by Carlos Nair and his mother
to the Government House. 20
35.
Moreover, in this same issue, there was an article entitled “El otro hijo. Un tal
Carlos…” [The Other Son. A So-Called Carlos…], which reported on various aspects of
the unrecognized parentage of former President Menem. Moreover, information was
also provided regarding the relationship between Mr. Menem with Mrs. Meza and their
son, the gifts to Carlos Nair Meza received from Mr. Menem, and the visits of the child
both at the President’s official residence as well as at the summer presidential
compound. The article also mentioned the threats against Menem's son, which were
denounced by Mrs. Meza who required the national government’s responsibility for
their safety, and which prompted Mrs. Meza’s request for asylum in Paraguay, as well
as some issues the Argentine President carried out with the President of Paraguay.
Finally, it mentions the existence of an agreement between Mrs. Meza and Mr. Menem
by which the latter gave her a pension for an amount of twenty thousand U.S. dollars a
month, at the same time creating a trust in favor of Carlos Nair of approximately one
million U.S. dollars, and he lent his “political support” in connection with an
investigation that, at that time, the husband of Mrs. Meza was facing in an
investigation for his alleged involvement in embezzling millions from the social work
retirees. In this last publication, the theft of the jewelry and money is reiterated as
well as her “economic growth.” In this article, specific mention is made to a book “El
Jefe. Vida y Obra de Carlos Saúl Menem” [The Chief. Life and Work of Carlos Saul
Menem], from where part of the information published was obtained. 21
20
Cf. Magazine Noticias, edition No. 985 of November 12, 1995 (case file of annexes to the Report No.
82/10, annex 3, tome I, folios 227 and 243). It reads: [t]his time the trigger was the knowledge that the
first lady Zulema Yoma recently met with her ex-husband and the teenager Carlos Nair (14), born in the
town of Las Lomitas of Formosa on upon who the weight sits of the illegitimate son of the President. [In May
of 1995]: Menem took in, at the Casa Rosada, Mrs. Martha Meza with her son Carlos Nair.
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Cf. Magazine Noticias, edition No. 985, supra note 20, folios. 245 to 247. There it reads: ['i]f he
does not feed his son, how will he feed the country.' A poster with this legend was put up all over Formosa
territory, work of deputy provincial Martha Elizabeth Meza [...]. [Mrs. Meza] found no better way of
presenting society with the alleged paternity of her son, Carlos Nair (14). [...] According to Gabriela Cerruti
in [...] her book El Jefe [The Chief], Carlos and Martha lived a 'passionate romance which culminated in the
pregnancy and her willingness to have his son. Carlos tried to convince her of the difficulty of the situation,
but finally ended up accepting with the condition that Zulema (Yoma, 52) not find out.’ [I]n November
[1981] Carlos Nair was born, whose name in Arabic means 'the fatherless'. [A teacher] said that [the child]
'was very secretive about who his father was. Only in recent months did he state that his father was Menem
and brought some photos to the school where he was with his dad, when he was little. " [...]
At the age of six, from Buenos Aires, he received a small gift of a bike and later a large computer. The last
October 17, the gift was a Honda 100. In more than one opportunity, Charly called Menem to ask for
scholarships and school supplies for his peers of lower economic means, something to which the President
always responded. [...] Nair was in constant contact with his father, whom he visited once a month and
received frequent calls. It was usually the driver of his mother [...] who accompanied him on trips to Olivos,
although he did make the trip numerous times with the Mrs. Meza, especially after the expulsion of Zulema
Yoma of the presidential country house. In one of his first visits to the official residence [an aide to Menem]
managed the department of cuatro ambientes in the neighborhood of Once, where, since then, [Mrs. Meza]
staid when visiting the port. [...] Economic Ascent: [...] Menem gave [Meza] an apartment of 4 rooms in the
Once (U.S. $ 70,000). [...] In 1990, Carlos Menem invited his son to spend the end of year holidays in
Anillaco, but Meza refused to grant her son permission. However, that summer, the family reunited at the
presidential compound of Chapadmalal, which served as refuge for the father and son in the following years.
In February of 1993, Menem’s electoral obligations limited the arrangement to one specific day, in which the
President gloated with cooking for the youngest of his children, who remained there the rest of the week
along with the driver of his mother. [The] then counsel of Zulema Yoma in the divorce trial against Carlos
Menem [...] presented a questionnaire as [part of the process] that aimed to establish the alleged infidelity
committed by him during his stay in Las Lomitas. [Mrs.] Meza refused to answer, but the public importance
of this request led the Formosa representative to demand the withdrawal of Yoma’s statements before the
media, leading to a crossing of letters, documents, and other news scandal regarding the Presidency of the
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