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In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

  
  EVA PERON AND CERVICAL CANCER
Many times, she wrote to Juan Peron, "please think of me for what I am, stop berating me for the things that I have done (with other men) before I met you." After all, Juan Peron was a man of the world and he never stopped criticizing her for not being a virgin.
In January, 1950, at age 30, Eva Peron, the most famous person in Argentina, fainted in pubic and was diagnosed as having appendicitis and had her appendix removed.
In 1951, Eva Peron's husband was running for reelection as president of that country.
www.drmirkin.com /women/8724.html   (467 words)

  
 Eva Perón@Everything2.com
The body of Eva Peron, first lady of Argentina, was perfectly preserved in its entirety, intended by President Juan Peron to stand on display in a mausoleum as a shrine to his wife and a symbol of his power.
Eva had begged Peron not to allow her to be forgotten, and President Peron resolved to have his wife's body preserved and displayed in a huge mausoleum, as a monument to her life, but also as a bastion of Peronism.
Eva's body was finally returned to her family, and laid to rest in the Duarte vault in Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=54198   (2262 words)

  
 Eva Peron - the famous Tango singer
Eva Peron was called a saint and a goddess loved and adored by many Argentines but hated by her opponents.
Eva Peron was the paradigm of the political and revolutionary woman in the twentieth century.
Eva Peron was helped by her friend Agustín Magaldi in her career and life.
www.todotango.com /eva-peron.htm   (150 words)

  
 Eva Perón (1996)
Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
All one has to do is look at the hundreds of photo's of Eva Peron pre-1950 (before her disease) and one will be able to see the extraordinary differences in physical appearance.
Eva Peron was a diamond with some rough edges, Goris is just rough around the edges.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0116238   (727 words)

  
  The Biography Channel - Eva (Evita) Peron Biography
Born out of wedlock, Eva, commonly known as Evita, left school when she was 16 and went to Buenos Aires to pursue her dream of becoming a star.
She found a job on one of the radio stations and remained there until, in 1943, she met Juan Peron, the Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare, who had ambitions to be president, and was working with the Argentine workers to support this bid.
Peron stood in the presidential elections in 1946 and Evita was an active campaigner by his side, an unprecedented occurrence in Argentine politics.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/596:0/Eva_Evita_Peron.htm   (529 words)

  
  Eva Peron
María Eva Duarte (May 7, 1919 - July 26, 1952) was the second wife of Juan Perón whom she met while working as a radio soap opera actor.
She created the Eva Perón Foundation, an institution to assist the poor, and organized the women's branch of the Justicialist Party.
Eva Perón died of uterine cancer at the age of 33.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ev/Eva_Peron.html   (339 words)

  
 Heroes: Activist Eva Peron
Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina.
She once said, "Peron has a double personality and I need to have one also: I am Eva Peron, the wife of the president, whose work is simple and agreeable...
Surgery was unsuccessful, and a few months later, on July 26, 1952, Eva Duarte de Peron died at the age of 33 surrounded by her family.
www.teenink.com /Past/2002/December/Heroes/ActivistEvaPeron.html   (1088 words)

  
 Eva Peron - MSN Encarta
Eva Perón, née María Eva Duarte (1919-1952), Argentine political figure and second wife of Juan Domingo Perón.
After his inauguration as president in 1946, she began to play an active role in politics, became his liaison with labor, created the Eva Perón Foundation (a social welfare institution), and organized the women's branch of the Justicialist Party.
By 1949, Evita, as she was affectionately known, was the second most influential figure in Argentina and coleader of the descamisados (“shirtless ones”), the mainstay of her husband's support.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553850/Eva_Peron.html   (174 words)

  
 Eva Peron Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eva Peron was born in 1922, in Los Toldos Province.
Eva Peron was used to seduce the nation.
Eva Peron redistributed the nation's wealth from the rich to the poor.
www.paralumun.com /warevaperon.htm   (278 words)

  
 Floridian: Eva Peron and her doctors' deceit
When Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina, underwent a hysterectomy in November 1951, she did not know that her husband, Juan, had summoned a Manhattan cancer surgeon to perform the procedure.
Eva's efforts for the poor made a powerful political figure of a woman whose fame was later perpetuated as Evita in a Broadway musical and movie.
In lifting Eva's medical story from obscurity and reporting it in the June 3 issue of The Lancet, Dr. Barron Lerner, a medical historian and ethicist at Columbia University, has added new information to an earlier biography of Eva and a small number of articles about her illness in Argentine newspapers and medical journals.
www.sptimes.com /News/061200/Floridian/Eva_Peron_and_her_doc.shtml   (866 words)

  
 Peron, Eva "Evita", 1919-1952 | libcom.org
Eva Duarte was born in a village 150 miles to the west of Buenos Aires.
Peron was also using the earthquake tragedy to put himself forward as a champion of the poor, indeed Eva Duarte sang his praises on the radio before she had met him.
In the next 3 years Eva, now officially married to Peron, would show how valuable she was to Peronism in enchanting the masses, tying them enthusiastically to the regime and thwarting any independent organisation of the working class.
libcom.org /history/articles/1919-eva-evita-peron   (1395 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 26 | 1952: Eva Peron dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, has died from cancer, aged 33.
She met the then Colonel Juan Domingo Peron in 1944 when he was vice president and secretary of war and the couple were married in 1945.
In 1955 General Peron was overthrown in a military coup and he fled to Spain.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/26/newsid_3660000/3660875.stm   (554 words)

  
 Evita / Eva Peron Biography
Maria Eva Duarte, as she was called in the beginning; Eva Perón, as she was known in her last years; Evita, as the people baptized her, was a character who broke all the historical precedents and defined a new political pattern that had never been seen before.
During the period she acted, by Peron's side, she was the centre of a rising power and became the soul of the peronista movement, in its essence and in its voice.
Maria Eva Duarte was born in Los Toldos, province of Buenos Aires, in 1919.
www.mibsasquerido.com.ar /wcelebrities02.htm   (842 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Eva Peron: Livres en anglais: Alicia Dujovne Ortiz,Shawn Fields   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ortiz recounts Eva Peron's humble birth, her extraordinary rise to power in Argentina at the side of her husband General Juan Peron, and her short and legendary reign as a virtual queen, dispensing comfort to the masses before she died from cancer at 33.
Evita was christened Eva Maria Duarte by her mother, whose liberal sex life was a necessary response to poverty.
Eva's power over men eventually caught General Peron, and together their hatred of the ruling oligarchy reshaped the country.
www.amazon.fr /Eva-Peron-Alicia-Dujovne-Ortiz/dp/0312168276   (576 words)

  
 Evita / Eva Peron Biography
Maria Eva Duarte, as she was called in the beginning; Eva Perón, as she was known in her last years; Evita, as the people baptized her, was a character who broke all the historical precedents and defined a new political pattern that had never been seen before.
During the period she acted, by Peron's side, she was the centre of a rising power and became the soul of the peronista movement, in its essence and in its voice.
Maria Eva Duarte was born in Los Toldos, province of Buenos Aires, in 1919.
www.mibuenosairesquerido.com /wcelebrities02.htm   (842 words)

  
 Madonna Tribe presents the Evita Shrine
Even poor Juan Peron should shed a tear or two; he is relegated in the movie to the status of a "walker", a presentable man who adorns the arm of a rich and powerful woman as a human fashion accessory.
Eva died of cancer at 33, in 1952, cheered as a saint by the masses and jeered as a whore by the snobs.
Eva's gaudy funeral ends the film as crowds line up to view the body that was "supposed to have been immortal." Line up for Evita in the hope of seeing the musical revived for a new generation and you'll find the same thing: a beautiful, embalmed corpse.
www.ultimatemadonna.com /evitashrine/movie_reviews.htm   (4193 words)

  
 Eva Perón (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drama based on the life of Eva Peron, an obscure actress, who rose to become wife of Argentine strong-man President Juan Peron and one of the most powerful figures in Argentina until her death in 1952 at age 33.
All one has to do is look at the hundreds of photo's of Eva Peron pre-1950 (before her disease) and one will be able to see the extraordinary differences in physical appearance.
Like Madonna in Parker's film, Goris became Eva Peron and her passion for the role is clearly evident in her performance.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0116238   (641 words)

  
 Eva Peron
Although Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, known throughout the world as Evita, lived very briefly, her impact on Argentine politics was enormous and continues today, more than four decades after her death.
Though exactly half Peron's 48 years, Evita, at numerous turns, assisted her husband's rise to power in ways that were beyond the imagination of even the most astute politicians.
When Peron became Minister of Labour and Welfare, Evita convinced him that his real power base should be the previously ignored masses of labourers living in the horrible villas miseria (slums) that still ring the capital city.
www.travelsur.net /facts133.htm   (1032 words)

  
 Eva Peron
Eva's mother did not send her to school, but made her work in kitchens of rich families.
Eva moved to Buenos Aires when she was 16 to become an actress and she made a few films and worked in radio.
Eva was an advocate for the education of women.
www.wc.pdx.edu /evitaperon   (375 words)

  
 Background Information on Eva Peron
Eva developed an intimate relationship with the widowed Peron, who was beginning to organize the Argentine workers in support of his own bid for the presidency.
Eva was driven by the desire to master those members of the oligarchy that had rejected her and she could be ruthless and vindictive with her enemies.
After Eva's death, which produced an almost unprecedented display of public grief, Peron's political fortunes began to deteriorate, and he was finally overthrown by a military coup in September 1955.
oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/education/projects/webquests/argentina/biopage.html   (863 words)

  
 Home Page of Eva Perón
Eva was taken to the hospital for treatment of exhaustion after collapsing at an awards ceremony.
She was nominated to run as vice president in the second election, and it all would have worked, but the military objected.
Despite this, Eva told the people: "I will do what the people want me to do," However, Perón made her re-address the crowd a few days later and tell of the sorrowful news.
members.aol.com /EvaPeron/Eva.html   (1031 words)

  
 Final de un enigma: el polémico libro "Mi Mensaje" pertenece a Eva Perón
Eva había dictado un mensaje póstumo, lo metió en una botella y lo tiró al mar. El mensaje había llegado.
Eva sabe que el gobierno de su esposo peligra, ya ha habido una intentona de golpe militar contra él; y sabe también que ella se muere.
Eva Perón leyó a Cafiero, ya en su lecho de enferma, algunas páginas de "Mi Mensaje", tal como el senador revela en su libro "Mis diálogos con Evita" y como lo hizo en 2002, al igual que Chávez, a este diario y a este periodista.
www.clarin.com /diario/2006/11/19/elpais/p-01401.htm   (1500 words)

  
 Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Eva offended the non-Peronist men of the time because this was one of the first times in their history where a woman was giving orders.
What I find interesting is the simple fact that had Eva Duarte been born into a privileged class holding a hereditary title or had she been born a man several of these myths would never have been born.
In both cases her gender and sexuality are made the forefront of her character and the judgment laid upon it: the opposition insists that Eva once worked as a prostitute and many of them claim so to this day, despite the fact that there is no evidence to support such a claim.
www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=0226791440&field-keywords=Couperin&schMod=music&type=&sb=s   (1417 words)

  
 The Legend of Evita, an Omnibus Review
Raised a devout Catholic, Eva was so thrilled to meet the Pope on a trip to Europe that she died with a rosary he gave her, even though his failure to decorate her irked Argentines who perceived the Vatican's decision as a slight.
The Eva of the musical is strikingly empowered for a woman in politics of her era, despite only cursory mentions of real accomplishments like suffrage and the diminishment of corruption in the military.
Eva is preserved in corporeal legends the narrator believes she would have deplored -- sexual legends about her kinky ability to please Perón after her illness made lovemaking impossible, social legends about miracles she performed for the poor, funerary legends about vapors coming from her nose long after death.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_evita_omni.html   (2882 words)

  
 Evita
In 1935 María Eva, a teenager, went to the City of Buenos Aires, a city that exerted a powerful magnetic attraction for the rural population of Argentina and a metropolis that was the final destination of most migrations in those days.
However, Eva Perón Foundation is, even today, an institution that has a profound evocative force and one that is paramount in keeping alive in the argentine people Eva`s Perón memories.
Peronism tried to replace, by setting in place an organised social assistance system, the tradition of private "charity" aminlyadministered through religious or beneficial institutions run by the wealthy upper class ladies of every major city in Argentina.
www.argentour.com /historia/evitai.htm   (916 words)

  
 Eva Peron
Eva then persuaded a party to be hosted by Colonel Anibal Imbert, and this changed her life forever.
It was Eva who convined Peron to help the workers, and she also persuaded him into putting her mother's boyfriend and herself into Director of Posts and Telegraphy positions.
Eva also toured Europe and was received well in Spain, but was not well received in France, Great Britain, or Italy.
www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/peron.html   (589 words)

  
 Eva
Eva Peron: The Myths of a Woman is a well written book that explores all the myths that revolve around Eva Peron.
By the time of her death in 1952 at the age of 33, the charismatic Argentine first lady Eva Peron, Evita to millions of loyal followers, had become a saint-like figure and spiritual leader to her people and the world.
Eva Peron's life is once more an obsession with the scheduled release of the movie version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's hit Broadway musical, Evita.
www.evaperon.itgo.com /eva03.html   (1970 words)

  
 Evita Peron Historical Research Foundation
U.S. The goal of the FIHEP is the recovery, historical investigation, and diffusion of the life and works of Señora María Eva Duarte de Perón and of her relevant contemporaries.
It is time to rescue the woman buried beneath the myth and to contribute to the historical knowledge of the figure of Eva Perón from a scientific perspective.
The seed for the Evita Perón Historical Research Foundation was planted in 1995 when her sisters gathered together a group of professionals from diverse areas of Argentine culture.
www.evitaperon.org   (122 words)

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