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...because of Perón's seemingly indelible charisma, the party has had a near mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Martínez de Perón, the dictator's widow, would assert herself. Isabelita, as she is widely called, was ousted by the military in 1976 and banned from politics after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last...
...rising wave of terrorism, the Argentine military returned the country to civilian rule. Within a month, Perón returned to live in Argentina and was re-elected President three months later. Perón died in July 1974, leaving power in the hands of his third wife, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, a former cabaret dancer. "Isabelita," as she was known, was unable to reduce Argentina's terrorism or its hyperinflation, and the country's increasingly impatient generals overthrew her in March...
...indication of the restlessness beneath the authoritarian veneer was the scene last week as the government freed the country's last civilian President, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, 49, after five years of detention. A onetime cabaret dancer, she assumed power after the death in 1974 of her husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political...
...water they had. The next night, three men were found near Highway 85. They insisted they were alone, apparently afraid of acknowledging they had left others behind. Says Border Patrolman Hector Ochoa: "If they had told us the truth, we could have saved most of them." Not until Yolanda Estela Hernandez, 20, was found beside the highway the next afternoon did authorities learn that others were in the desert...
...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...