eva peron

[MDIEIR]

To Be Evita © - Part I Buenos Aires, July 26, 1952. Argentina is wrapped in silence as the country listens to the official communique from the Subsecretariat of Information: "It is our sad duty to inform the people of the Republic that Eva Perón, the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, died at 8:25 P.M.
From that initial silence sprang forth the sound of weeping and the sound of corks popping from champagne bottles. These sounds reflected the love and the hate that Evita inspired. The sounds of weeping reached the street and took the form of interminable lines visible to all the world until the day of Evita's funeral on August 11th. The champagne glasses were raised in private.
Each Argentine knew who Eva Perón was; some, however, based their knowledge on their feelings while others depended on the rational interpretation of facts. Tangible reality began to take the form of myth and those of us who did not share Evita's chronological space in time but wished to know her found that for many years our way was blocked by silence. "We Do Not Speak of That" is not only the title of an
Argentine film but also a signpost of our history.
The works that were published, the movies that were filmed, the voices that even today are raised in praise or condemnation confirm that Eva Perón has transcended both time and myth.
If life is a continual choice and we continue to evolve until the hour of our death, then on July 26, 1952, Evita, the child born thirty-three years ago in a small Argentine town, had reached the end of her journey: she had become forever Evita.

Los Toldos

Her story began on May 7, 1919, in Los Toldos, Province of Buenos Aires, when Juana Ibaguren gave birth. Four siblings preceded her: Elisa, Blanca, Juan and Erminda. Her father, Juan Duarte, had arrived in Los Toldos at the beginning of the century and had leased the farmland of La Unión with the goal of making it prosper. Everyone knew that the soil of the region was good for livestock and for agriculture. Juan Duarte belonged to an influential family in Chivilcoy and he and Adela d'Huart had several children there.
Prosperous and prestigious among the Conservatives of the area, patrón of an estancia, typical leader in the political struggles of the time, Juan Duarte was named Deputy Justice of the Peace in 1908.
But 1919 was not a good time for Conservatives. After long years of struggles, revolutionary in the beginning and abstentionist later, assured of electoral victory by the Saenz Peña Law after years of electoral fraud, the Radical Party headed to the polls and walked away with the power.
After the Radical Party President Dr. HipólitoYrigoyen dismantled the machinery which had prevented freedom of expression in the provinces, the Conservatives lost their last bastion in the Province of Buenos Aires. The Conservative Mayor and personal friend of Juan Duarte was replaced by the Radical Jose A. Vega Muñoz.
Juan Duarte's star began to decline and economic difficulties appeared on the horizon. When he was offered the job of administering fields in the neighboring vicinity of Quiroga, the family moved there but only stayed for a year. Erminda attended first grade in Public School Number One, but Evita was still too small to don the obligatory Argentine schoolchild's white smock.
Since Quiroga did not offer them the opportunities they had hoped for, the family returned to Los Toldos. While the older children had enjoyed their father's times of economic bonanza, the younger ones knew only the times of scarcity. Their situation became even more serious when Juan Duarte died on January 8, 1926, after a car accident in Chivilcoy.
Juan Duarte's funeral has been presented in both literary and dramatic form many times over. The rejection that Eva's family supposedly experienced is at the core of these presentations. Blanca and Erminda, Evita's surviving sisters, categorically deny these scandalous versions. Their half brothers and sisters had already lost their mother. Eloisa Duarte (their half sister) has a son, Raúl Guillermo Muñoz, who has stated in a document witnessed by a notary public that the two families have always maintained a cordial relationship.
From that time on, the problem of survival "became a struggle which took on a new aspect each day," as Erminda Duarte remembers in her book, My Sister Evita (pg. 20). Doña Juana sat at her Singer sewing machine day after day, sewing and sewing, never complaining, ignoring her doctor's orders to rest her ulcerated legs. "I have no time. If I rest, how can I work, how can we survive?" (ibid, pg. 31). Elisa worked at the post office. Blanca studied to be a teacher in the pampas town of Bragado.
Eva began primary school when she was eight. She attended first and second grade in Los Toldos. Her childhood was spent in contact with nature, climbing trees, raising silkworms, playing hide-and-seek, hopscotch and tag, wearing homemade costumes which replaced store bought toys and made her into whatever she wanted to be.
Her sister Erminda was her inseparable playmate and her brother Juan fulfilled their wishes: he made kites and even a piano with keys that moved; he was the architect who constructed their playhouses and the ringmaster of their circuses. Elisa and Blanca nourished their childhood fantasies with bedtime stories.

Junín

In 1930 Juana decided to leave Los Toldos with her "tribe," as she liked to call her family, to seek a better fortune in the nearby town of Junin, where Elisa had been transferred. Blanca would soon begin teaching at the Sacred Heart School and Juan would find work in the town's pharmacy. Erminda began secondary school at the Colegio Nacional and Eva was registered in third grade at Public School #1, Catalina Larralt de Estrugamon.
In Junin at lunchtime three people sat down at the family table because they preferred Doña Juana's homemade cooking over anything else the small town had to offer; with time they would become part of the family.
Major Alfredo Arrieta, Commander of the Military District, would marry Elisa. Don José Alvarez Rodriguez, rector of the Colegio Nacional, came with his brother, Dr. Justo José Alvarez Rodriguez, who would one day marry Blanca.
In Junin, the childhood theatricals of Los Toldos were replaced by roles on a real stage. Eva began to stand out for her ability to recite poetry. In her autobiography, The Reason For My Life, she would say, "Even as a little girl I wanted to recite. It was as though I wished to say something to others, something important which I felt in my deepest heart." (pg.21) The Commission of the Artistic and Cultural Center of the Colegio Nacional often organized theatricals. Erminda was a member and even though Evita wasn't, she was still allowed to join the group and participate in a play called "Arriba Estudiantes." In Junin Evita's voice was broadcast for the first time over the loudspeakers installed in Prime Arini's "House of Music." Once a week the young people of the town would take the microphone in hand and display their artistic talent for singing, reciting, or declaiming.
Evita's "profound artistic vocation" (as she herself spoke of her calling) was nourished by Junin's cinema, her teenage radio auditions and her collection of film star pictures.
In Junin Evita had to make her first choice: "Shall I remain a small town girl and marry here as so many girls do? Shall I be a teacher like Blanca? Or an employee like Elisa?" By 1935 Evita had made up her mind: "I'II be an actress.
The characteristics of Evita's personality fit her vocation. She herself would say in La Razón de Mi Vida, her autobiography, "Like the birds, I've always preferred the freedom of the forest. I haven't even been able to tolerate that minimum loss of freedom which comes from living with your parents or in your hometown. Very early in life I left my home and my hometown and since then I've always lived free. I've wanted to be on my own and I have been on my own." (La Razón de Mi Vida, C.S. Ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1995, pgs. 193-194).
The circumstances which surround Evita's leavetaking from Junin have generated countless versions, the most common of which involves Augustín Magaldi, nicknamed the "Gardel of the Provinces" [Carlos Gardel was a famous Argentine tango singer]. Depending on which version you hear, he's either interceding with Doña Juana, at Evita's request, to obtain her permission for Evita to go to Buenos Aires, or simply providing Eva with letters of introduction which will open the doors of stardom for her. Erminda's memory of the conflict caused by Evita's unshakable decision to go to Buenos Aires and Doña Juana's no less unshakable desire to prevent her from going, contradicts the Magaldi versions. After pondering the words of José Alvarez Rodriguez, who advised her not to stand in the way of her daughter's vocation, Doña Juana gave in. "The rector insisted so much, that Mother, clenching her teeth, took you to Buenos Aires.
Doña Juana returned alone, "furious with the Rector of the Colegio Nacional, furious with everyone, "having left Eva in the home of friends of the family, the Bustamantes" (Duarte, Erminda: op. cit., pg. 71). The little girl of Los Toldos and Junin had been left behind. Together with a few personal possessions placed in a suitcase and lost over the course of the years, Eva took with her the pedaling sound of the New Home Sewing Machine, the remembrance of toys wished for but never obtained, the impact of the discovery that there are poor and rich in the world and the emotional indignation felt when faced with injustice... these things she would always keep.
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[Strengthandhonour]

In my opinion Evita Peron ranks among the top greatest women of the last century. She was very brave and determined and always cared for her people, and may I add that she was also a beatiful woman:

[MDIEIR]

Im agree of

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

According to one report, Eva kept the SS treasure in her private accounts immediately after the war. Otto Skornzey went to Argentina to recover the funds. Skorzeny had good things to say of Evita Peron and that is recomendation enough for me. She came to her political philosophy from the left and from unionism and concerns for the poor but she married Juan Peron, squarely on the right side of the political spectrum and in that fusion balanced these two political forces.

[MDIEIR]

thanks for your opinion, but the things that you are tellin´us was not proved at all. It was only a report. Second I could see not bad be in the middle of the forces because for me for these reason she was nd intelligent woman

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

Originally Posted by MDIEIR

thanks for your opinion, but the things that you are tellin´us was not proved at all. It was only a report. Second I could see not bad be in the middle of the forces because for me for these reason she was nd intelligent woman

Oh, MDIEIR, I haven't even told you half of it. But you can read it for yourself: "Skorzeny Hitler's Commando", by Glenn. B. Infield, 1981, St. Martin's Press, New York, pages 191-204.

[MDIEIR]

thanks I will do it