* December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term.

** Carlos Menem, President of Argentina

With them he appeared at the Teatro Opera in Buenos Aires in the presence of the newly-elected Argentine President Carlos Menem on Fri 9 June 1989.

Carlos Saúl Menem ( born July 2, 1930 ) is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999.

Menem Carlos " el patillas " La Rioja in 1973, a prominent post that left him exposed after the overthrow of President Isabel Martínez de Perón in March 1976.

Early on in the administration of President Carlos Menem ( 1989 – 1999 ), Argentina restored diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and developed a strong partnership with the United States.

Argentina's reputation as a mediator was damaged, however, when President Menem and some members of his cabinet were accused of approving the illegal sale of weapons to Ecuador and to Croatia.

In 1998, President Menem made a state visit to the United Kingdom, and the Prince of Wales reciprocated with a visit to Argentina.

López Murphy came third in the 2003 presidential elections, with a platform that emphasized transparency, polarizing with former President Carlos Menem.

President Menem first had to control inflation and stabilize the economy, which he did by adopting a series of radical measures including fixed parity between the Argentine peso and the U. S. dollar.

President Menem had already privatized the state telecom concern and national airlines ( the once-premier airline in Latin America, Aerolíneas Argentinas, which was later almost run into the ground ).

After his first public accusations, relations between Cavallo, President Menem and his colleagues became progressively strained.

* President who held office for most time continuously: Carlos Menem, for 10 years and 5 months, in two terms ( 1989 – 1999 ).

A Justicialist, Kirchner was little-known internationally and even domestically before his election to the Presidency, which he won by default with only 22. 2 percent of the vote in the first round, when former President Carlos Menem ( 24. 4 %) withdrew from the ballotage.

President Carlos Menem then pardoned the leaders of the junta in 1989 – 1990.

However, after popular discontent over the decision, President Carlos Menem was forced to back down on the offer.

In October 1998 the IMF invited Argentine President Carlos Menem, to talk about the successful Argentine experience, at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors.

President Menem's Minister of Economy ( 1991 – 1996 ), Domingo Cavallo, the architect of the Menem administration's economic policies, specifically including " convertibility ", made the claim that Argentina was at that moment, " considered as the best pupil of the IMF, the World Bank and the USA government ":

He followed the neo-liberal economic model of President Carlos Menem, including privatising the provincial bank of which his own grandfather had been a founder.

The program of deregulation and privatization pursued by President Carlos Menem in reaction to the country's socio-economic crisis of 1989 led to the decentralization of the Argentine secondary school system, whereby, from 1992 onwards, the schools ' administration and funding became a provincial responsibility.

Argentina, the other South American guarantor involved in the matter, admitted to the illegal sale of armament by revealing the existence of three secret decrees signed by President Carlos Menem between the years of 1991 and 1995.

The value of the currency stabilized soon after President Carlos Menem was elected.

She opposed President Carlos Menem, who was in office from 1989 to 1999, and supported the election of Néstor Kirchner, who became president in 2003.

He was President of the Latin American Insurance Chief Officers association from 1989 to 1992, under Carlos Saul Menem ’ s presidency, and is a co-founder of the Insurance Chief Officers International Association.

* 1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.

* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Finally in 1992, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then candidate to the Presidency, declared that in its plan of government the quarrel for creation of the Ministry of Defense was foreseen.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

Burhanuddin Rabbani ( Burhânuddîn Rabbânî ; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011 ) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996.

He took over as President from 1992 until the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 by President Bill Clinton who campaigned in 1992 on the promise to allow all citizens to serve in the military regardless of sexual orientation.

* 1914 – Karl Carstens, President of Germany ( d. 1992 )

* 1992 – A coup d ' état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.

As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.

The Honduran land reform process under President Callejas between 1989 and 1992 was directed primarily at large agricultural landowners.

The USSR continued to support President Mohammad Najibullah ( former head of the Afghan secret service, KHAD ) until 1992.

* 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.

* 1992 – A " joint understanding " agreement on arms reduction is signed by U. S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin ( this would be later codified in START II ).

John Major with then-US President George H. W. Bush at Camp David in 1992

* 1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.

However, although he could not get federal funding for empowerment zones passed during his tenure, by 1992 38 states had created empowerment zones, and in 1994 $ 3. 5 billion was approved for them under President Clinton.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

Mauritius became a republic on 12 March 1992, with the last Governor General, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, as interim President.