Tag: Argentine politics

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  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.