64 Facts About Eva Peron

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

Eva Peron 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 Peron 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 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 Peron was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1936, Eva Peron 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 Peron Duarte, is said to have not liked her, but to have noted that she was "thoroughly dependable".

Eva Peron 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 Peron played a young country girl who rivaled an older woman, the movie's star, Libertad Lamarque.

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

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

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

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

Eva Peron 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.

Juan Eva Peron had made the suggestion that performers create a union, and the other performers likely felt it was good politics to elect his mistress.

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.

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President Pedro Pablo Ramirez became wary of Juan Eva Peron's growing power within the government and was unable to curb that power.

On 9 October 1945 Juan Eva Peron was arrested by his opponents within the government who feared that, with the strong support of his base, largely unskilled unionized workers that had recently moved from rural areas to industrialized urban centers and several allied trade unions, Eva Peron would attempt a power grab.

At 11 pm, Juan Eva Peron stepped onto the balcony of the Casa Rosada and addressed the crowd.

Crassweller writes that Juan Eva Peron enacted the role of a caudillo addressing his people in the tradition of Argentine leaders Rosas and Yrigoyen.

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

In 1947, Eva Peron 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 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 Peron should visit other European countries in addition to Spain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Eva Peron Foundation began with 10,000 pesos provided by Evita herself.

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

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

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Eva Peron then created the Female Peronist Party, the first large female political party in the nation.

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

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

In 2011, a Yale neurosurgeon, Daniel E Nijensohn, studied Evita's skull X-rays and photographic evidence and said that Peron may have been given a prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of her life, "to relieve the pain, agitation and anxiety she suffered in the final months of her illness".

Eva Peron hastily fled the country and was unable to make arrangements to secure Evita's body.

In 1973, Juan Eva Peron came out of exile and returned to Argentina, where he became president for the third time.

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

Eva Peron's body was later buried in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

McManners claims that Eva Peron consciously incorporated aspects of the theology of the Virgin and of Mary Magdalene into her public persona.

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

Eva Peron 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 Peron Duarte, making her the first actual woman to be featured on the currency of Argentina.

Juan Eva Peron's opponents had from the start accused Eva Peron of being a fascist.

Therefore, both Evita and Eva Peron were seen to represent an ideology which had run its course in Europe, only to re-emerge in an exotic, theatrical, even farcical form in a faraway country.

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

Governments that preceded Juan Eva Peron had been anti-Semitic but that his government was not.

Eva Peron's government was the first to court the Argentine Jewish community and the first to appoint Jewish citizens to public office.

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