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Argentine Folk Singer Mercedes Sosa Dies

Oct. 4, 2009
Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74.
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