Evita

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In 1949 the most familiar scene in Argentina was the one played out almost daily
at the Ministry of Labor in Buenos Aires. There, under the glare of camera lights, a former
radio star and movie actress, now the most powerful woman in South America, would
enter her office past a crush of adoring, impoverished women and children. Evita Peron,
the wife of President Juan Peron, would sit at her desk and begin one of the great rituals
of Peronism, the political movement she and her husband created. It was a pageant that
sustained th…