Qa'dah 19, 1431 H/Oct 27, 2010, SPA -- Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, husband of current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, died Wednesday at his home in the southern Argentine town of El Calafate, according to media reports citing official sources. Kirchner, 60, reportedly suffered a heart attack and died after being taken to hospital in the Patagonian town, some 2,800 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. He had already had heart surgery twice this year, according to dpa. He was regarded as one of the major forces in Argentine politics, and was also a likely candidate in the South American country's 2011 presidential election. He was the current president of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) and was believed to have recently played a major part in efforts to keep Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in the job amid a major police mutiny.
