| A woman kisses the head of the late Argentine president Raul Alfonsin during the wake in the Congress in Buenos Aires, April 1, 2009. Alfonsin died March 31 after suffering from lung cancer. Alfonsin, 82, who guided Argentina's return to democracy in the 1980s after seven years of brutal military rule but failed to stave off a deep economic crisis, died on March 31, 2009, of lung cancer. Alfonsin was president from 1983 to 1989 and won international admiration for putting on trial and jailing the former military leaders who tortured and killed thousands of suspected leftists in a vicious "dirty war." [Xinhua/Reuters] |
