Nestor Kirchner, president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, and husband to current president Cristina Fernandez, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, October 27th, at the age of 60. Kirchner was widely expected to run for a second term in a presidential election next October. Today, thousands of Argentinians filed past a flag-draped coffin to pay their respects to the former President, then lined the capital's rain-slicked streets for a glimpse of his hearse as it passed by. Kirchner's remains will be flown to the southern region of Patagonia, where he was born, for burial. Collected here are recent images from Argentina as it bidsfarewell.
01.jpg (326.58 KB. 990x597 - viewed 3 times.)Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (center) sits next to the coffin of her husband, former Argentine President (2003-2007) Nestor Kirchner, during his wake at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 28, 2010. Thousands of Argentinians, joined by Latin American leaders, paid homage Thursday to ex-president Nestor Kirchner, the powerful husband the current president Cristina Fernandez, who died suddenly of a heart attack on October 27. (AFP/Getty Images)
02.jpg (210.92 KB. 990x647 - viewed 2 times.)Mourners hold a candle vigil after the death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner in front of the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires October 27, 2010. (REUTERS/Martin Acosta) #
03.jpg (362.29 KB. 990x489 - viewed 3 times.)People accompany the hearse carrying the coffin with the remains of late Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner during a funeral procession to the airport through the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Kirchner's remains will be flown to the southern region of Patagonia, where he was born, for burial. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia) #
04.jpg (376.38 KB. 990x660 - viewed 2 times.)Pamphlets in support of the Kirchners cover the ground where a woman walks past a line of police near the government palace during the wake of former President Nestor Kirchner in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) #
05.jpg (232.69 KB. 990x695 - viewed 2 times.)People wait in line to pay their respects to former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, outside presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. (Diego Giudice/Bloomberg) #
06.jpg (300.8 KB. 990x645 - viewed 2 times.)eople touch the hearse carrying the coffin with the remains of late Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner during a funeral procession to the airport through the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia) #
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07.jpg (145.4 KB. 990x675 - viewed 2 times.)A woman waits in line to pay her last respects to Argentina's former President Nestor Kirchner at the government palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
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08.jpg (254.11 KB. 990x660 - viewed 2 times.)A man walks past a message on the road that reads in Spanish "Nestor will always be in the heart of the people" as he arrives to pay his last respects to former President Nestor Kirchner at the government palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday Oct. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
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09.jpg (230.88 KB. 990x709 - viewed 2 times.)Police officers control people as the hearse carrying the coffin with the remains of late Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner during a funeral procession to the airport through the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) #
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10.jpg (264.27 KB. 990x659 - viewed 2 times.)Maximo, son of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Nestor Kirchner stands beside the coffin of his father as Chilean President Sebastian Piñera (3rd from right) and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa (2nd from right) look on, at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires on October 28, 2010. (AFP/Getty Images) #
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11.jpg (210.53 KB. 990x710 - viewed 1 times.)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) #
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