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María Eva Duarte de Perón (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾi.a ˈeβa ˈðwarte ðe peˈɾon]; née María Eva Duarte; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita (Spanish:), was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine ...
In 1974, his corpse was stolen by Montoneros to force the return of Evita Perón's body to Argentina. Evita's corpse had disappeared after her husband fled the country. After his execution in Bolivia in 1967, the hands of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara were sent to Argentina for identification. They were later sent to Cuba.
EVITA'S MIXED LEGACY AND THE FIGHT OVER HER EMBALMED BODY. Perón died two decades after Evita, in 1974, but his name continues to spark both admiration and hatred, yearning and blame.
La Recoleta Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy, and military commanders such as Julio Argentino Roca.
Santa Evita is a 1995 novel by Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez. It is the story of the corpse of Argentine political leader Eva Perón , the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón . The book became a bestseller in Argentina and has been widely translated. [ 1 ]
Alongside his wife, Eva Duarte ("Evita"), they also pushed for women's suffrage, provided charity and built approximately half a million houses. [3] Other relevant measures include reforming the constitution in 1949; the creation of the UTN (originally named National Worker's University); paying off all the national debt; nationalizing the ...
After Evita's death in 1952, the new leader of the party, Delia Parodi, successfully pushed the divorce project by promoting it as part of Evita's feminist plan (although Evita had never mentioned such a law). The divorce law passed, and was hailed as ensuring "the right to happiness in lasting love and a respectable marriage" by Parodi.
The group, a political action committee formed by prominent current and former Republicans, mocked coronavirus-stricken President Trump’s return from his three-night stay at Walter Reed National ...