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Article: Juan and Eva Peron are still a powerful political presence in Argentina.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 16, 1996
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Fifty years after they rose to power, the politics of Juan and Evita Peron still reverberate in Argentina.
Champions of the working class to their supporters, fascist dictators to their opponents, the Perons are revered and loathed in equal measures by the people of Buenos Aires.
``To the poor people of Argentina they were saviors, but to the rich they were the devil,'' said Maria Julia Moreno, a Buenos Aires resident and student of the Peron era.
Juan Domingo Peron was one of a group of colonels who seized power in June 1943. Using the Ministry of Labor as his base, he became one of the most powerful members of the junta under ...