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By Various photographers from news agencies. Axis of Logic editorial.
Axis of Logic Editorial; Photos: various sources
Saturday, Oct 30, 2010

The sudden death of former Argentinian President, Nestor Kirchner, on Thursday has been having a huge impact on the people of Argentina. The people's reaction to his death reveals the deep love and respect they had for him. Such a sense of loss and adoration can surely be explained by the simple fact that Nestor Kirchner loved and respected them, listened to them and placed their interests above all others. 

A wake was held for Nestor Kirchner at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday, October 28, 2010. In the photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (center) sits at the coffin of her husband. Many thousands of Argentinians and heads of state from across Latin America mourned together and paid homage to the former Argentinian president and current president of UNISUR.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Mourners hold a candle vigil in front of the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires October 27, 2010. (Martin Acosta, Reuters)

The funeral procession through the streets of Buenos Aires to the airport on Friday. Mr. Kirchner's body was then flown the southern region of Patagonia, where he was born, for burial.(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. People wait in line at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires to pay their respects to their former president who saved Argentina from financial collapse by turning his back on the IMF and World Bank.  (Diego Giudice/Bloomberg)

Argentine people wanting to make contact with their fallen leader during the funeral procession in Buenos Aires yesterday.  (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

A woman grieves as she waits in line to pay tribute to Mr. Kirchner at the presidential palace on Thursday.  (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

"Nestor will always be in the heart of the people" 
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

Grieving crowds in the streets of Buenos Aires during the funeral procession to the airport yesterday, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

Maximo, Nestor and Cristina's son places his had on the coffin of his father.  Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa stands behind Maximo on the right with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera beside him. (AFP/Getty Images)

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner stands next to the coffin of her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner during his wake in the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires October 28, 2010.(REUTERS/Argentine Presidency)

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, comforts Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina's president, during the funeral of (Bloomberg)

President Hugo Chávez kisses the hand of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when he arrived at the funeral. (photo: TeleSur)

President Chávez gives Argentinian president and widow of Nestor Kirchner a hug at the funeral. A small private ceremonywas held  in a cemetary in Rio Gallegos, capital of Santa Cruz. The only people permitted at the ceremony were Cristina, the couple's 2 children, Maximo and Florencia and Venezuelan President Chávez. (photo: Telesur)

People placing messages, flowers and praying outside the government palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A man obviously makes a connection between Nestor Kirchner and Evita Duarte and Juan Domingo Peron as he shows his pendant with their images while waiting to pay respects in Buenos Aires on Thursday Oct. 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

"Nestor, you will never die"
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A woman weeps at Casa Rosada, the Presidential Palaceover her country's loss of Nestor Kirchner yesterday in Buenos Aires. (REUTERS/Andres Stapff)

Tens of thousands gather around the hearse as it leaves the presidential palace on a procession through Buenos Aires to the airport yesterday, Friday. Oct. 29, 2010. (Diego Giudice/Bloomberg)

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and widow of Nestor Kirchner reaches out to the mourning Argentine people in Buenos Aires yesterday. (REUTERS/Martin Acosta)

A man touches the coffin that carries the body of Nestor Kirchner as it is loaded into a plane bound for the burial site in Southern Patagonia. (AP Photo/Jorge Araujo)

Late President Nestor Kirchner bids farewell from a newspaper photo to a woman who is waiting for the motorcade in Buenos Aires yesterday (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

Argentina's President-elect Nestor Kirchner wife, then Senator Cristina Fernandez, visiting the Perito Moreno glacier at Los Glaciales National Park in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina in May, 2003.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Left to Right: Nestor Kirchner, President of UNISUR; Evo Morales, President of Bolivia; Lula Da Silva, President of Brazil and Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela. Former Argentinian President Kirchner was leader of UNISUR an an important leader for the integration of Latin American States at the time of his death.(photo: AP)

In addition to sharing similar views of Washington, the IMF and World Bank, Nestor Kirchner and Hugo Chávez enjoyed a close personal friendship. (photo: TeleSur)

Nestor Kirchner and Hugo Chávez also shared the Bolivarian vision for unification of Latin America and signed numerous trade agreements between the two countries. (Photo: MINCI)

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