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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
The life of Argentina's legendary First Lady Evita Peron left an indelible mark on her country, but in the years after she died in 1952 a bizarre tale unfolded in which her embalmed remains took ...
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 ]
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Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader, activist and actress Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón. The story follows Evita's early life, rise to power, charity work, and death.