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The “Spiritual Leader of the Argentine Nation” was born a century ago
She was probably the most influential woman in recent South American history, who in her brief life changed the political culture of Argentina: she was adored by the poor and the workers, she empowered women and helped her husband, as First Lady, build a formidable catch-all movement that has since dominated Argentine politics. All this in such a short period of time, less than a decade, has turned Evita Peron into a myth. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules100% fascism.....
May 07th, 2019 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Sentiiiiiiiiiiir... que es un soplo la vida...
May 07th, 2019 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -5que cien años no es nada... que febril la mirada...
errante en las sombras..., te busca y te nombra...., Evita...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X88Cg_3CXDU
Just a couple of weeks ago there were very critical comments on this site about the British Embassy in Buenos Aires celebrating the Queen's birthday. I'm not sure that “Queen Evita” is in quite the same league as Elizabeth II !!
May 07th, 2019 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse +3I was a primary school kid during her years in power. People lived in fear of her because at any moment she would send her goons around or “nationalize” things. There were innumerable stories of her corruption and abuse of power. My father worked in a company that was a leading producer of cooking oil. One time her foundation put in an truly immense order for oil, over half of the company's annual production, with price and payments conditions specified. When the last delivery was made the company got a letter from her thanking it for the donation. That was sort of typical. Grown-ups all seemed to agree that what drove her was not social injustice, it was revenge for her poverty when she was young and the way she was rejected by the “upper class society” when she became the president's wife. O, our obligatory reading book when I was either in fourth or fifth grade was her “biography,” “La Razón de my vida.”
May 07th, 2019 - 02:08 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Alas, her whole mythical legacy is now remembered by the rest of the world as Madonna singing:
May 07th, 2019 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Don't Cry for Me Argentina
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom, running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Don't cry for me, Argentina
The truth is, I never left you
All through my wild days, my mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are…
There still is hope that Francis, the talking Pope, may someday canonize her.
Estimado hermanito Shileno....
May 07th, 2019 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Alas.., her whole über-mythical legacy is remembered with reverence by each and every HUMBLE Argentinean close to my age decile I ever interacted with in my whole life...
- Pope Pancho included...
In regard as how her whole über-mythical legacy is remembered by th Angloshere's showbizz...........
Sincerily...., nos chupa un huevo...
Chicureo, I prefer
May 07th, 2019 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse -1A new Argentina, the chains of the masses untied
A new Argentina, the voice of the people
Cannot be denied
There is only one man who can lead any workers' regime
He lives for your problems, he shares your ideals and your dream
He supports you, for he loves you
Understands you, is one of you
If not, how could he love me?
A new Argentina, the workers' battle song
A new Argentina, the voice of the people
Rings out loud and long
Now I am a worker, I've suffered the way that you do
I've been unemployed, and I've starved and I've hated it too
But I found my salvation in Peron, may the nation
Let him save them as he saved me
A new Argentina, a new age about to begin
A new Argentina, we face the world together
And no dissent within
Gooooooood boy....
May 07th, 2019 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -2;-)
DT
May 08th, 2019 - 02:10 am - Link - Report abuse -2Thanks for the above.
Of course, narrow-minded people and Argentina's privileged will never recover from the shock of living under a government wanting to reduce the country's inequality with a better income distribution, and they were grinding their teeth seeing bastard Evita aggressively advocating for her cherished 'cabecitas negras.'
For those who did not have an opportunity to witness the oligarchy's deep-seated hate in action, they just need to google “bombardeo plaza de mayo 1953” or (Spanish) “levantamiento de valle” and see what those real bastards were able to do in their hate for their own people -- something they would replicate in numerous occasions after 1955.
Lacking which, just take a look at today's Argentina reality: A country again devastated by a backward, hateful elite bent on “teaching a lesson” to those “damned Peronists-Kircherists.”
Of course, fear of Evita, hate for Evita was inevitable, and the extremes the thugs went into by stealing her body shows it well.
It just made her character and people's love grow through time.
Only 171 days left..., Sr. Massot...
May 08th, 2019 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse -2https://days.to/until/27-october
Ah, Sr. Massot, what about the glorious second reign of Peron and La Reina Isabel, wasn't that a great chapter in the country's history ? Did they do a lot for the poor oppressed Argentine people ? I think not
May 08th, 2019 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Ah, Sr. Turnip just above..., what about the moon being made of soft, green cheese...?
May 08th, 2019 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Thanks anyway for confirming that Evita was a great chapter in the country's history and did a lot for the poor oppressed Argentinean people...
@viejopatagon
May 08th, 2019 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Exactly as I remember my father (who worked for a multinational) telling it.
But, it's no use arguing with indoctrinated fanatics.....Am I mistaken or did one of them call those that don't agree with him, “narrow-minded people” ? must say, sounds very tolerant, a great virtue of all lefties.....
VP
May 12th, 2019 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Grown-ups all seemed to agree that what drove (Evita) was not social injustice, it was revenge for her poverty when she was young and the way she was rejected by the “upper class society” when she became the president's wife.“
You speculate about what may have driven Evita to be a champion for the poor and destitute, while skipping any consideration about what she effectively accomplished in a very short period and at a very young age.
In any event, if Evita disliked the upper classes, it has to be said, the feeling was mutual.
Just mention Evita to one of those highly-educated members of Argentina's 1,000 families and you'll witness an instant transformation, with insult and name-calling of a caliber to make blush the most hardened Buenos Aires bus driver.
Just think of the graffiti ”viva el cancer“ that someone applied in a wall of the hospital where Evita was dying of cancer to have an idea of the hatred these people felt for a woman who had the audacity to suggest that the poor, the humble ”cabecitas negras,” were also human beings.
@viejopatagon
May 13th, 2019 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Further to the above, long before Evita became “interested” in social injustice, she was interested in “appearing” to be the “champion of the poor and destitute”.
As I mentioned, my father and 3 uncles were working in BA when Peron came to power and Evita became the “champion” ....a kind of Robin Hood who 'helped herself first'......but if she was the “champion” that Reekie advocates, what did she do to show for it ?
Did she “lift the poor out of poverty”, as many deranged populists like to claim ? Reekie talks about “what she effectively accomplished in a very short period”...I'd like to know what it was.
JB
May 13th, 2019 - 03:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Jack -- can't teach you Argentine history in this space. However, if you wish to become a bit knowledgeable, there are numerous YT videos that are a good start. And I am not saying check only sympathetic sources. Check both, friend and foe, and then make up your mind -- if that is what you really want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdVGvYUF4s&t=2895s
EM
May 13th, 2019 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Reekie, I am not arguing that Peron and Evita weren't popular....amongst the lower social classes......they were, like Lula was, and probably still is amongst the ignorant of Brazil..... I simply asked you to list some of the good things they supposedly did, which were life-changers for the “poor and destitute”....
Anyway, afaic, my parents' and other family members' stories on Evita's 'blackmail',
to ostensibly help the poor, are far more reliable than your accounts of her, and a few YT videos.
You don't have to teach me Argentine history, I'm not asking you to, am simply asking a very simple question....answer it directly, or if you can't or don't want to, I'll understand.
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