Carlos Soria, Governor of Argentina's Rio Negro Carlos Soria, governor of the southern Argentine province of Rio Negro, died Sunday of a shot to the head, according to the provincial spokesman. Soria, 62, had just taken office on Dec. 9. Spokesman Julian Goinhex said Soria was celebrating the new year when he died, but he gave no details about what occurred. Soria was born in 1949 to a fervent follower of leader Juan Peron who was twice imprisoned after the president was overthrown in a coup in 1955, according to his 2011 official campaign biography, and the son continued that heritage as a lifelong activist in Peronist political movements. The family eventually settled in the city of General Roca, where they ran a small grocery store. Soria earned a law degree in 1973 and quickly entered politics, serving in the provincial and national legislatures, as mayor of General Roca and as national intelligence minister. While Soria is a member of the governing party inspired by Peron, he has clashed in the past with President Cristina Fernandez. According to the newspaper Clarin, Fernandez accused him in 2002 of spying on her husband, Nestor Kirchner, while heading the intelligence ministry. They put that rift behind them as he won election as governor last year. Soria headed a congressional commission investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires and later, as regional security minister for Buenos Aires, oversaw a hunt for bodies of victims of the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship.