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María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".
She was born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919. In 1934, at the age of 15, she went to the nation`s capital of Buenos Aires, where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. Eva met Colonel Juan Perón in 1944 at a charity event in San Juan, and the two were married the following year. In 1946, Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina. Over the course of the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the Pro-Peronist trade unions, essentially for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women`s suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation`s first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, Eva Perón accepted the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina. In this bid, she received great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". However, opposition from the nation`s military and elite, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952 shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. [1][2][3] Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture [4], most famously as the subject of the musical Evita. [5] Christina Alvarez Rodriguez claims that Eva has never left the collective conscience of Argentines. [1] Cristina Fernandez, the first female elected President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness".[6] Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Per%C3%B3n |
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Quotes "If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it." "Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow." "My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten." "When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas." "I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron."
"There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radish." "In government, one actress is enough." Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can`t stop to count it." "I am my own woman." "I will come again, and I will be millions." "I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have." "Time is my greatest enemy." Perón is the heart, the soul, the nerve, and the reality of the Argentine people. We all know that there is only one man in our movement with his own source of light. We all feed off of that light. And that man is Perón! [1951 speech]Trivia Eva Peron became more powerfull in death.
When Peron was overthrown in 1955, the new government had her body removed from the Ministry of Labour.
It was then hidden in such places as a military base, truck parked on a street, an attic, and then shipped to Italy.
It was exhumed in 1971 and returned to Peron. Eva Peron died at just 33. Shortly before her death, Eva Peron had been given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation." Evita underwent an emergency appendectomy in 1950.
Her surgeon later said that she refused to submit to a life-saving hysterectomy after tests revealed she had uterine cancer, claiming the surgery would have interrupted her work for the poor. Under Evita, women got the vote for the first time in 1950.
Eva Peron redistributed the nation`s wealth from the rich to the poor. Eva Peron is often referred to by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva". Pope Pius XII granted her a 30-minutes interview, a length reserved for queens only. She desperately craved the Pontific Marquee, a honorary title bestowed by the Vatican, but never succeeded.
Evita`s body was immaculately preserved. Perón hired a Spanish pathologist Dr. Pedro Ara who had perfected a technique for preserving human flesh. Dr. Ara spent two years preserving her entire body including her brain and other internal organs which embalmers normally remove. Whether she prostituted herself or not has never been substantiated. Critics of the government in the late 40`s and early 50`s claimed they had pornographic photos of the young Eva, but none ever materialized. What is known is that Eva did have a succession of lovers which aided her in getting better parts in the theater. While Eva toured Spain as the first lady of Argentina, she was awarded with a supreme gift from president Franco, The Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic. Because Eva was Roman Catholic, this award was of extreme importance to her. When the aristocratic ladies of the Sociedad de Beneficiencia disdainfully refused her its honorary presidency-- a post that traditionally belonged to the president`s wife-- Evita promptly destroyed the organization and set up her own Eva Duarte de Perón Social Aid Foundation. Not one to waste time on sleep she lived eighteen-hour days. She was ardent in her hatred for her enemies, the oligarchy. Evita loyalists trace this deep antagonism to her sexual assault as a teenager by two young landowners` sons. Upon her death in 1952, loyal Perónistas cabled Pope Pius XII to request that he begin the beatification process, the Catholic Church`s first step in canonization. They were rebuffed. After her death, her body was embalmed by doctor Pedro Ala. When Peron had to leave Argentina, so did Evita's body. Her body was buried for 14 years in Italy, under the name of Maria Maggi. Is portrayed by Faye Dunaway on Evita Peron (1981) (TV) and Madonna on Evita (1996). She died at 8.25pm. She founded the Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation in 1948. Briefly ran for vice-president of Argentina. Her mother was Juana Ibaguren. She also had 4 siblings: Elisa, Blanca, Juan and Erminda. She was the youngest. Wife of the Argentinean political Juan Domingo Perón. During her acting career she was mostly well-known as Eva Duarte. In her political career she adopted the last-name of her husband. So she was known as Eva Perón, or, simply, Evita. She inspired the rockopera and the movie "Evita (1996)". Had a big dispute and fallout with Argentine actress 'Libertad LaMarque', which caused LaMarque to be blacklisted by the Peron regime. LaMarque went into exile into Mexico afterwards. | ||
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