Article: After 'Evita', Peron to face dirt-diggers

Madonna's latest starring role means that the international spotlight is once more focused on Evita Peron. Now Evita's husband, Argentina's populist leader General Juan Peron, is also being disinterred.

His remains are to be exhumed, probably this week, to test the claim of Martha Holgado, a 62-year-old Argentinian with a remarkable resemblance to the late general who insists he was her father. Though many Argentinians believe his third wife's claim that he was impotent, a court in Buenos Aires has ruled that Ms Holgado might have a point and that a DNA test is in order.

"This is war. They're trying to keep me from my birthright," Ms Holgado said at a court hearing after the general's last ...

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