Eva Perón
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Latin American History
Article abstract: Eva Perón’s partnership with her husband, president Juan D. Perón, brought the laboring masses of Argentina into politics for the first time but also laid the foundation for a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
Early Life
Eva “Evita” Maria Duarte de Perón was born María Eva Duarte in 1919 in the small rural town of Los Toldos, located some one hundred miles east of the Argentine capital city of Buenos Aires. She was the fifth and last child of Juan Duarte, an agricultural estate manager, and his mistress, Juana Ibarguren. At the...
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