When was evita born

His popularity led to his arrest in , but Evita helped to organise a mass demonstration that led to his release. Peron stood in the presidential elections in and Evita was an active campaigner by his side, an unprecedented occurrence in Argentine politics. Peron was duly elected and Evita continued to play an active role. She kept her promise to the working classes and took such an interest that, in everything but name, she became the Secretary of Labour, supporting higher wages and greater social welfare benefits.

Evita also had a high public profile, visiting factories and hospitals, and holding meetings with those whom she was trying to help.

As a result of this work, Evita also took an active interest in health policy, supervising programmes to eradicate some of the most crippling diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and leprosy. In , she set up the Maria Eva Duarte De Peron Welfare Foundation, which distributed money, food and medicines to those most in need. The result was very popular with the poor masses, but far less popular with the elite. Evita further angered the elite with her active campaign for female suffrage.

Secretary of Education U. Secretary of Energy U. Secretary of Health and Human Services U. Secretary of Homeland Security U. Secretary of Labor U. Secretary of State U. Secretary of the Interior U. Secretary of Transportation U. Senator U. Supreme Court U. Her popularity as first lady grew and the top fashion designers and apparel firms wanted to dress her.

They have in Dior's Paris firm a mannequin with Eva's precise measurements. In that way, they worked and sent clothing to Argentina," Gene said. A beautiful women surrounded by luxury, something that contrasted with the popular tone of her speeches. She was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus in but nevertheless the workers movement proposed her for vice president, an offer that - due to political pressure - she declined.

Finally, and after a hard fight against the cancer and surgery, Eva died without any progeny on July 26, Her death was the beginning of the end of Peron's second mandate as president.

He was overthrown by a dictatorship in and spent almost the next 20 years in exile, during which time the military exhumed Evita's remains and sent them to Italy to be reburied. Since , however, Evita's remains have rested in the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, where each day thousands of tourists take photos in front of the tomb of the woman who is now the eternal emblem of an epoch.

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