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Article: After 'Evita', Peron to face dirt-diggers
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 3, 1997
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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 ...