Zulema Fátima Yoma is a former First Lady of Argentina

First Lady of Argentina

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A native of Nonogasta in La Rioja Province

La Rioja Province (Argentina)

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, Fatima Yoma was married for twenty-five years (1966–91) to Carlos Saúl Menem

Carlos Menem

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 who served as President of Argentina

President of Argentina

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 from July 1989 to December 1999. They had two children, a son, Carlos Saúl Facundo Menem Yoma, who died in a helicopter crash in 1995 (which Yoma felt was politically-motivated), and a daughter, Zulema María Eva Menem, who, starting in 1991, fulfilled the role of First Lady

First Lady

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at formal occasions for the remaining eight years of her father's presidency.