The death of a "leader"?

Wednesday October 27th, we Argentinians had to stay at home to wait for the person who was carrying out the census in our neighbourhood (I couldn't find an equivalent to the word "censista"). For me it was a holiday so I woke up at about 10 a.m, not that late, and when I turned on the TV-I am a TV addict as you can see- I learnt the tragic news. Former president Néstor Kirchner was dead! He suffered a heart attack, the presidency later confirmed.

I have to admit that I was greatly shocked. I wasn't fond of him because I totally disagree with his and her wife's (the current President) ideas but still he was a young person, only 60 years old. I knew he suffered from a heart disease and that he had been operated on two times this year but I think nobody expected him to die!

I feel sorry for him and for his family. In spite of the fact that I do not sympathize very much with the President, I feel pity for her as she has lost not only her beloved husband but, above all, an expert political adviser. This is precisely the main reason why, as many people claim, our President is likely to face many new threats to her leadership.

Having said all this, I want to say I am still filled with indignation over some journalists, especially those belonging to Clarin group, who highly criticized and obviously opposed Kirchner during his political career, and now mourn him and behave as if they were sorry or hurt for his loss. They must habe literally jumped for joy when they confirmed the news!!! And while the President was standing near her husband's coffin-she was really moved, it showed- these journalists were publishing pieces of news on the net saying how Kirchner had fought for his ideas and how he had risen to power. I honestly couldn't believe my eyes when I read that. For the love of God, do they think we are idiots or something of the sort?

Finally, I'd like to tell you why I chose this title for the post, and it is because I have read in many, specially foreign, newspapers or websites that, with Kirchner's death, Argentinians had lost one of the most important leaders of our history or something like that. I didn't feel like that at all! I believe Kirchner was the leader of a political party, even though he was our President for four years and he may have done several good things, even though I believe the bad things he did outnumber the good ones.
I am not trying to start a political debate over this topic, I only wanted to voice my opinion on such an important event. We had to watch the funeral and everything the President did afterwars for two running days! The country was paralyzed, for Christ's sake!
How did you feel about this? If I have to choose a word, it would be overwhelmed. I wanted to come back to reality, specially because of television!!! ;)