Evita
Evita
very long a good "A" winner great! best worrk he saw all year
In 1949 the most familiar scene in Argentina was the one played out almost daily
at the Ministry of Labor in Buenos Aires. There, under the glare of camera lights, a former
radio star and movie actress, now the most powerful woman in South America, would
enter her office past a crush of adoring, impoverished women and children. Evita Peron,
the wife of …showed first 75 words of 1812 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1812 total…of anti-government terrorism. In 1971, after a number
of demands by terrorists, the Argentine government agreed to return Evita's body. It was
shipped to Peron in Spain.
That year, Peron was allowed to return to Argentina; two years later he was
president again. He died in office, and it was his wife and successor, Isabel, who brought
Evita's body back to Argentina, in the hope that the aura of a saint would again dazzle the
public.
