New research provides a sad look at both the last days of former Argentinian first lady Eva Perón and how severe pain caused by cancer and other diseases was sometimes treated back in the 1950s. It’s ...
Maria Eva Duarte de Perón, before she died of cancer at age 33. Congress building is home to the Eva Peron Salon where women could congregate away from men and talk over matters without their ...
Some 12 miles southwest of the city of Buenos Aires is a remarkable settlement called Ciudad Evita. It was founded in 1947 by the then-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, in tribute to his wife, Eva.
The battle over Eva Peron´s final resting place remains as uncertain as her political career was controversial. Her mausoleum, ironically for a champion of the poor situated in an upmarket area of ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Early every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to Saint Cajetan, Saint Teresa and Eva ...
Eva Maria Duarte de Peron died of uterine cancer in 1952, but ""Mi mensaje,"" ""My Message,"" wasn't found until some 30 years later, in a government archive, and then published in 1987. Purported to ...
BUENOS AIRES — Defiled by grave robbers, banished from the presidential grounds and sliced for DNA samples, the battered body of former Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron was moved Tuesday to a ...
The presiding character in “Eva Doesn’t Sleep” is dead before most of the action takes place: Writer-director Pablo Aguero (“Salamandra”) speculates on the eerie journey of Eva Peron’s body, which ...
During her short life, Eva Perón (born Duarte) was quite controversial. But one thing is undisputable: she is likely the most famous Argentine in the world. She was as loved as she was hated. But ...