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Article: When politics was a family business: Peron legacy endures. (Juan Peron and Argentina)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 14, 1988
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For almost half a century, Juan Domingo Peron and his second and third wives, Eva and Isabel, were the only ones who really counted in Argentine politics, besides the Army. Though Evita died in 1952 and El Lider's heart gave out in 1974, their legacy endures. The man most likely to win the Presidency next year campaigns under huge portraits of Juan and Evita and has to cope with Isabel, the keeper of the flame.
Peron, an Army colonel who learned his moves in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy during the 1930s, first emerged as Labor Secretary after a 1943 coup. He recruited Eva Duarte, a struggling radio-and-film actress, as his mistress and, later, as his wife. ...