Former Argentine president dies of heart attack

FORMER Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a heart attack yesterday.

Kirchner, 60, was considered President Cristina Fernandez’s closest adviser and a major power broker in her government.

“It was a sudden death,” Kirchner’s doctor, Luis Buonomo, told Reuters after the former president died in the southern city of El Calafate, where the presidential couple have a weekend home.