| Argentine ex-president Raul Alfonsin announces his resignation of the presidency in Buenos Aires in this file photo taken June 12, 1989. 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." Picture taken June 12, 1989.[Xinhua/Reuters] |
