Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner was the single most influential person in Argentine politics over the past decade, the man who reshaped the multifaceted Peronism into a center-left movement now called Kirchnerism, and the man who brought the country back from the brink of financial ruin.
Kirchner died early Wednesday of heart failure at age 60, at a hospital in his hometown El Calafate in Santa Cruz province, some 1,700 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. His wife, current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, was at his side.
Kirchner had already had heart surgery twice this year and had suffered an obstructed carotid artery.
A national legislator at the time of his death, the former president was regarded as a Click for rest of story
Nestor Kirchner, former Argentine president, dies at 60
