Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita.
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Full Name: María Eva Duarte de Perón
Description: The First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
Known For: International popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita.
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date Born: 7th May 1919
Location Born: Colonia Agricola La Union, Argentina
Date Died: 26th April 1952
Location Died: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Memorial: Burial: Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina.
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Eva Peron
María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Peró, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.
She was born in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1934, she moved to the nation’s capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next 6 years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily 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 announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving 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 bourgeoisie, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” by the Argentine Congress. Eva Perón was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.
Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture,[5][page needed] most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976). Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, Evita’s great-niece, claims that Evita has never left the collective consciousness of Argentines. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first elected female President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for “her example of passion and combativeness”.
Death
Although Perón had undergone a hysterectomy performed by the American surgeon George T. Pack, the cancer had metastasized and returned rapidly. She was the first Argentine to undergo chemotherapy (a novel treatment at that time). Despite all available treatment, she became emaciated, weighing only 36 kg (79 lb) by June 1952. Evita died at the age of 33, at 20:25 on Saturday, 26 July 1952. Radio broadcasts throughout the country were interrupted with the announcement that “The Press Secretary’s Office of the Presidency of the Nation fulfills its very sad duty to inform the people of the Republic that at 20:25 hours Mrs. Eva Perón, Spiritual Leader of the Nation, died.” Ordinary activities ceased; movies stopped playing; restaurants were closed and patrons were shown to the door.
June 1952. Evita died at the age of 33, at 8:25 p.m., on July 26, 1952.