53 Facts About Eva Duarte

Eva Duarte was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children.

Eva Duarte met Colonel Juan Peron on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina.

Juan Peron was elected President of Argentina in June 1946; during the next six years, Eva Peron became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights.

Eva Duarte ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Peron Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In 1951, Eva Duarte Peron announced her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones".

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In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Duarte Peron was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.

Eva Duarte was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state.

Eva Duarte Peron has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita.

Eva Duarte Peron spent her childhood in Junin, Buenos Aires province.

When Eva was a year old, Duarte returned permanently to his legal family, leaving Juana Ibarguren and her children in abject poverty.

When Eva Duarte suddenly died and his mistress and their children sought to attend his funeral, there was an unpleasant scene at the church gates.

Mrs Juan Eva Duarte did not want her husband's mistress and children at the funeral and, as she was the legitimate wife, her orders were respected.

Biographer John Barnes writes that, after this abandonment, all Eva Duarte left to the family was a document declaring that the children were his, thus enabling them to use the Eva Duarte surname.

In 1934, at the age of 15, Eva Duarte escaped her poverty-stricken village when she ran off with a young musician to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires.

Eva Duarte began to pursue jobs on the stage and the radio, and she eventually became a film actress.

Eva Duarte's sisters maintain that Eva Duarte traveled to Buenos Aires with their mother.

In 1936, Eva Duarte toured nationally with a theater company, worked as a model, and was cast in a few B-grade movie melodramas.

Pablo Raccioppi, who jointly ran Radio El Mundo with Eva Duarte, is said to have not liked her, but to have noted that she was "thoroughly dependable".

Eva Duarte had a short-lived film career, but none of the films in which she appeared were hugely successful.

In one of her last films, La cabalgata del circo, Eva Duarte played a young country girl who rivaled an older woman, the movie's star, Libertad Lamarque.

The next year, Eva Duarte began her career in politics, as one of the founders of the Argentine Radio Syndicate.

Eva Duarte devised a plan to have an "artistic festival" as a fundraiser, and invited radio and film actors to participate.

Eva Duarte referred to the day she met her future husband as her "marvelous day".

Juan Peron and Eva Duarte left the gala together at around two in the morning.

Eva Duarte had no knowledge of or interest in politics prior to meeting Peron; therefore, she never argued with Peron or any of his inner circle, but merely absorbed what she heard.

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Eva Duarte had come to politics late in life, and was therefore free of preconceived ideas of how his political career should be conducted, and he was willing to accept whatever aid she offered him.

Shortly after her election as president of the union, Eva Duarte began a daily program called Toward a Better Future, which dramatized, in soap opera form, the accomplishments of Juan Peron.

When she spoke, Eva Duarte spoke in ordinary language as a regular woman who wanted listeners to believe what she herself believed about Juan Peron.

Eva Duarte had no political clout with any of the various labor unions, and she was not well liked within Peron's inner circle, nor was she even particularly popular within the film and radio business at that point.

Eva Duarte campaigned heavily for her husband during his 1946 presidential bid.

In 1947, Eva Duarte embarked on a much-publicized "Rainbow Tour" of Europe, meeting with numerous dignitaries and heads of state, such as Francisco Franco and Pope Pius XII.

The tour had its genesis in an invitation that the Spanish leader had extended to Juan Peron; Eva Duarte decided that if Juan Peron would not accept Franco's invitation for a state visit to Spain, then she would.

Advisers then decided that Eva Duarte should visit other European countries in addition to Spain.

Eva Duarte was well received in Spain, where she visited the tombs of Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in the Capilla Real de Granada.

Eva Duarte received from Franco the highest award given by the Spanish government, the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Eva Duarte then visited Rome, where the reception was not as warm as it had been in Spain.

Eva Duarte's next stop was France where she met with Charles de Gaulle.

Eva Duarte regarded the royal family's refusal to meet her as a snub, and canceled the trip to the United Kingdom.

Eva Duarte gave "exhaustion" as the official reason for not going on to Britain.

Eva Duarte visited Switzerland during her European tour, a visit that has been viewed as the worst part of the trip.

The cover's caption – "Eva Duarte Peron: Between two worlds, an Argentine rainbow" – was a reference to the name given to Eva Duarte's European tour, The Rainbow Tour.

Eva Duarte Peron has often been credited with gaining the right to vote for Argentine women.

Eva Duarte's actions were limited to supporting a bill introduced by one of her supporters, Eduardo Colom, a bill that was eventually dropped.

In 1951, Eva Duarte was chosen by her husband as a candidate for vice-president.

The wide support Evita's proposed candidacy generated indicated to him that Eva Duarte had become as important a figure of the Peronist party as Juan Peron himself was.

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Eva Duarte said her only ambition was that in the large chapter of history to be written about her husband, the footnotes would mention a woman who brought the "hopes and dreams of the people to the president", a woman who eventually turned those hopes and dreams into "glorious reality".

Eva Duarte took a triple dose of pain medication before the parade, and took another two doses when she returned home.

Once Eva Duarte's body had arrived in Argentina, the group unceremoniously dumped Aramburu's corpse on a random street in Buenos Aires.

Additionally, Eva Duarte Peron has been featured on Argentine coins, and a form of Argentine currency called "Evitas" was named in her honour.

Eva Duarte was by any standard a very extraordinary woman; when you think of Argentina and indeed Latin America as a men-dominated part of the world, there was this woman who was playing a very great role.

The controversial effigy of Julio Argentino Roca was replaced by that of Eva Duarte, making her the first actual woman to be featured on the currency of Argentina.

Eva Duarte was not a fascist—ignorant, perhaps, of what that ideology meant.

Eva Duarte Peron appears on the 100 peso note first issued in 2012 and scheduled for replacement sometime in 2018.