Noe Hernandez, a silver medallist at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, died yesterday from a suspected heart attack, two weeks after he was shot in the head in a bar.

The 34-year-old Hernandez was recovering at home from surgery following the shooting when he suffered a cardiac arrest, before dying on the way to the hospital.

On 30^th December, the athlete was in a bar in Los Reyes de Paz, a city in Central Mexico, when an argument broke out. A man opened fire, killing two people and injuring Hernandez and one other. The Mexican athlete lost sight in one eye, whilst the other was severely damaged. He had been allowed to return home by doctors to continue his recovery. The authorities are looking for three men in connection with the incident.

President of Mexico’s Olympic medallist Association, Daniel Aceves, announced that the death had been caused by a heart attack, but he confirmed an autopsy is planned to determine whether the cardiac arrest was related to the initial shooting incident.

The highlight of Hernandez’s career came at the Sydney Olympics when he won the silver medal in the 20km walk, finishing second behind teammate Bernardo Segura.

Brazilian Architect, Oscar Niemeyer, who designed some of the world’s most famous buildings, died yesterday at the age of 104.

Niemeyer is best known for his role in designing the futuristic government buildings in Brazil’s capital city, Brasilia. The acclaimed architect died in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, after suffering from kidney problems.

Considered by many as the father of modern architecture in Brazil, he was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1988. He also worked on the UN building in New York with the acclaimed Swiss architect, Le Corbusier.

Niemeyer’s family was informed via a personal telephone call from Brazil’s president, Dilma Roussef, that the country will be holding a memorial service for the architect at the presidential palace in Brasilia on Thursday. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Eduardo Paes, has declared three days of mourning in the city.

The Brazilian architect was known for his use of long flowing curves and stark concrete structures. He famously explained that his penchant for the swooping style was inspired by the curves of Brazilian women. “The curve I find in the mountains of my country, the sinuousness of the rivers, in the waves of the ocean and on the body of our beloved women”.

A fervent communist, Niemeyer was a long-time personal friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

He created more than 600 buildings around the world and continued to work on new projects right up until his death.

Albano Eduardo Harguindeguy, a former interior minister who served under the last dictatorship, died yesterday at the age of 85. The former major general was responsible for the Federal police throughout the bloodiest years of state terrorism during Videla’s reign. He died at his home in Malvinas Argentinas, where he was being held under house arrest for crimes against humanity.

The former general was considered by many to be the architect behind the state violence and disappearances during the dictatorship, and was a close ally of Videla between 1976 and 1981. Harguindeguy held a powerful position and was responsible for major policy-making decisions during those years. Despite being branded as the mastermind behind several disappearances, the former minister has died before he could be formally convicted.

In 2003, Harguindeguy boasted that he and his military colleagues saved Argentina from Marxism. “What we were doing back then corresponded with military duty. The armed forces must tell Argentina: we freed you from becoming a Marxist country”.

The former minister was not accused of any crimes initially in the years after the dictatorship. However, in 2004, Harguindeguy was involved as a defendant in the Condor Plan case. He refused to testify and as a result has been placed under house arrest ever since. His trial was ongoing when he died.

Radio and television host Juan Alberto Badía died today at the age of 64. The television icon had struggled with mediastinum cancer for two years when he caught pneumonia and died.

His body will be buried today in a private ceremony at 3:30 at the Jardin de Paz cemetery in Pilar, greater Buenos Aires.

Born on November 24, 1947 in Ramos Mejía, greater Buenos Aires, Badía’s father was also an announcer and broadcaster. In 1966, Badía enrolled in the Superior Institute of Radio Education.

His passion turned into a career with his first on air job in 1970 at the Antarctic Radio. In the same year he started Imaginate Flecha Juventud, a popular radio show for youth that aired for an entire decade.

During this time, the Beatles fervour travelled across the world, hitting Argentina and kickstarting Badía’s obsession. He hosted a half-hour show dedicated to the Beatles’ music and work and in 1990 he published ‘The Day that John Lennon Came to Argentina.’

His hit television show Badía&Co launched the careers of numerous broadcasters including Marcelo Tinelli. Lasting all afternoon, the show played hosts to bands playing live from Badía’s living room.

Between 1989 and 1991 he was the director of Radio Ciudad, from which he also developed his own station, Estudio Playa 98.19. He also had his own show JABRadio on Bariloche 96.5 and Imagen de Radio during the Menem administration.

In 2010, while Badía was hosting Estudio Pais on Channel 7, he was diagnosed with cancer. Mediastinum cancer affects the cavity between the lungs, which can be the sternum, heart, aorta, esophagus, thymus, and trachea. Badía’s tumor was located between his sternum and his spinal column.

In 2012 he was honoured at the Martín Fierro awards for his outstanding contribution to journalism for both radio and TV. On Monday he was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia of which he would not survive. He leaves behind his wife Mariano and three children Carla, Bárbara, and Juan Agustín.

The art collector María Amalia Sara Lacroze Reyes Oribe de Fortabat died at six o’clock this morning in Buenos Aires, aged 90.

Although officially an entrepreneur, the collector, best known as ‘Amalita’, occupied a privileged role in Argentine society. She was considered one of the most powerful, as well as the richest, women in Argentina, with estimated assets in excess of US$1600m, according to the magazine Forbes.

The only Argentine to have her portrait taken by Andy Warhol, her political relations, marriages and eccentric decisions frequently came under media scrutiny.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1921 to the doctor Daniel Lacroze Gowland and Amalia Reyes Oribe, the family moved to Paris one year later. Consequently, French became her first language, followed by English and finally Spanish.

She married the lawyer Hernán de Lafuente Sáenz Valiente in 1942, with whom she had her only child, María Inés. Some years later, she fell in love with Alfredo Fortabat, a man 27 years her senior, whom she married in Uruguay in 1947.

Following his death in 1976, Fortabat took charge of his business empire, Loma Negra, earning her the title ‘La dama del cemento’. Under her direction, the business’s assets tripled in size.

In the 1970s, she created the Foundation Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, an institution that donates millions of dollars to charity and provides grants to children’s homes, schools and cultural centres. She maintained good relations with the state, the military government, as well as the radical factions, during the period.

In 1992 she was appointed president of the National Art Foundation. She cultivated a strong relationship with Menem, who appointed her as a plenipotentiary ambassador; a privilege later revoked by Kirchner.

In 2000, she delegated a large part of her business to her grandson, Bengolea Alexander. She sold the company to the Brazilian group Camargo Korea for US$1.025m in 2003.

Over the last decade, Fortabat continued to contriubute her services to philanthropy and art. In the last few years, she devoted her time to developing her art collection and opened Museo Fortabat in Puerto Madero in 2008.

She is survived by her only daughter, Inés Lafuente, the heir to the Fortabat estate.

Rock musician, Luis Alberto Spinetta, has died after contracting lung cancer last July.

The musician, best known as the “Flaco” had been hospitalised for a 25 day surgical operation due to an “intestinal perforation.” He died at home surrounded by his family.

Spinetta’s illness was publicly announced last December in a moving letter, published on the Twitter account of his son, Dante.

A national icon and pioneer of Latin American rock music, Spinetta was the lead guitarrist of a number of bands, from Alemendra in 1967 to Pescado Rabioso and Spinetta Jade, before dedicating himself to a career as a solo artist in the 1980s.

In 2007, Artaud, the third album released by Pescado Rabioso, was chosen as the best album of Argentine Rock by the magazine Rolling Stone.

In December 2009, Spinetta performed a now mythic show in the Vélez Sarsfield stadium. Thereafter, his public appearances became increasingly more sporadic, although he continued to organise key local festivals.

Spinetta is survived by his four children, Dante, Catarina, Valentino and Vera.

A youngster was run over by a bus last night after an argument with the driver about payment of the fare. The accident happened around 10pm in the Once neighbourhood where he was crushed by the back wheels of a bus on the 88 line.

According to an eye witness who spoke to Crónica TV, a male passenger of around 20 years of age got involved in a “heavy argument” with the driver when he did not have enough coins to pay for his trip. The motorist then proceeded to push the man out onto the street. “The driver, after pushing the young man, got the bus going and, apparently unaware that he had fallen under the vehicle, he crushed him,” the onlooker said.

The police squad comisaría séptima have taken over the investigation.

This incident happened as the line 60 strike continues due to payment disagreements.

Family of Juan Enrique “Chango” Farías Gómez announced today the death of the 73-year-old singer from cardiac arrest. The singer had been in admitted to a private clinic in Buenos Aires last week for respiratory problems. It was reported that his condition was improving.

Yesterday, the news agency Télam had informed that the singer was hospitalised in an ‘intermediate care room’ of the medical centre.

Born on 19^th Decemeber 1937 in the northern province of Santiago del Estero, his family then moved the Buenos Aires barrio of San Telmo, then a centre of artists and musicians.

One of the emblems of the renovation of folk music in Argentina, Gómez enjoyed a lengthy career. As well as a successful solo career, he also led groups such as Huanca Huá, Músicos Populares Argentinos and La Manija.

As well as his career in music he also spent time as a city legislator.

On 21st August, literary icon Rodolfo Fogwill passed away in a hospital room, where he spent 10 or so days being treated for a pulmonary infection. The wake was held on Sunday, 22nd August at the Biblioteca Nacional and he was buried at a cemetery in Quilmes, where he was born.

Born in 1941, Fogwill is responsible for one of the most important literary works in Argentine history. Los Pichiciegos details the military adventures of soldiers in the Malvinas war, which is regarded as the most vivid and precise account of life during the war. He also published poetic anthologies, such as Partes del todo, a collection of poems that explore the different voices and personalities one experiences in making judgments.

Fogwill cultivated a persona in Argentina, as a staunch and morally charged author who pushed his opinions. His writing is appreciated as literature that takes a risk, that remains unedited and imaginative. His memory will resonate not just in Argentina, but around the world.