Argentine governor dies shots to head

[Viva_La_Revolution]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The ruling party governor of Argentina's prime oil-producing province was killed early Sunday of gunshots to the head, and his wife was being questioned by police.

The gun fired as Rio Negro Gov. Carlos Soria and his wife Susana were in their bedroom after spending New Year's Eve at their home in General Roca, authorities said. Emergency personnel found him bleeding in bed and took him alive to the local hospital, where he was declared dead just before 5 a.m., local media reported.

The governor's spokesman, Julian Goinhex, reported the death but gave no further details about what happened to the 62-year-old Soria, who won election by a wide margin in October and was inaugurated on Dec. 10 as part of the nation's ruling Front for Victory, displacing the Radical Party that had long controlled the province.

Soria will be succeeded by his vice-governor, Alberto Weretilneck. In an interview with Radio 10, Weretilneck called the shooting a domestic accident and said Soria and his wife were alone at the time.

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/01/4156167/argentine-governor-dies-of-shot.html

[DCKit]

1. There's always more to the story. nt

[Robb]

3. Indeed. Police are questioning the wife.

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. Man, the CIA needs a more subtle means of inducing cancer.

Cancer-tipped bullets aren't working.

[dionysus]

5. stop. just stop. i just came from that thread, it was priceless...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Background on Soria from Associated Press: Carlos Soria, governor of Argentina's Rio Negro

Posted on Sunday, 01.01.12
Carlos Soria, governor of Argentina's Rio Negro

The Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Carlos Soria, a career Argentine politician who for 21 days realized his dream of governing the western Argentine province of Rio Negro, died Sunday of gunshots to the head. Police were questioning his wife about the circumstances.

Soria, 62, had just taken office on Dec. 10 after winning by a landslide as part of the ruling Front for Victory coalition that backs President Cristina Fernandez.

A party stalwart who came up through the more conservative branches of Peronism and served as Argentina's intelligence minister under President Eduardo Duhalde, Soria sparred with Nestor Kirchner and his wife Cristina during the tumultuous economic crisis of 2002, and had spent the last eight years as mayor of the provincial town of General Roca.

Soria was born in 1949 to a fervent follower of Gen. Juan Domingo Peron who was twice imprisoned for his support of the strongman president and eventually left politics to set up a small grocery store in General Roca. Soria earned a law degree in 1973 and then followed his father's legacy.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/01/2569195/carlos-soria-governor-of-argentinas.html

[dimbear]

6. Some sources say shots, some say a shot. There's an important difference.

Anyway, from 'Pagina 12,' all interested parties submit to paraffin tests or some such GSR test, and the wife is invited to stay put.