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Article: Still loved and hated, that's Evita Peron.(Features)
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Byline: By ANDREW BALDWIN Feature Writer
RUTHLESS, ambitious and glamorous. Celebrated, admired and hated.
All these were words applied to Eva Peron, who died from cancer at the age of 33 on July 26, 1952.
She elicited strong and definite reactions; you were either forcibly for or against her.
She was born the daughter of a poor farmer, but became the wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron and wielded power in her own right.
She was a woman fired by determination and an over-riding desire to get to the top, using her sexuality in a single-minded pursuit of ...
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