Argentine icon Mercedes Sosa dies
Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine singer known as one of the leaders of the ``nueva cancion'' movement and whose songs became synonymous with social change for generations of Latin Americans, has died in Buenos Aires, aged 74.
Argentina's ex-president Raul Alfonsin, who led the country on its long-awaited return to democracy after the bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship, has died from cancer at the age of 82.