Word: evita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was also the repeated chant "Perón está presente," a rephrasing of the old cry that arose 22 years ago, after the death of Evita, Perón's popular second wife, when devoted Peronists insisted that she was still with them...
...Evita's successor as the President's wife, Isabel, 43 (see box page 75), acted as principal mourner?and as Vice President, she succeeded Perón in office. Isabelita had been in Europe on an official tour when Perón was taken ill. She flew home hurriedly after receiving reports of his declining health. In a weekend address to the nation, she announced that until he recovered she was temporarily assuming his duties as "Chief Magistrate of the nation." Two days later, Isabelita returned to television and radio to inform the nation that "a real apostle of peace and union...
Maria ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 42, has obviously learned more steps than did her predecessor. Evita's hopes of becoming Vice President in 1951 were dashed by a determinedly male-chauvinist military. This time round, with an overwhelming election victory for both Peróns, no such opposition is anticipated. Barring the total collapse of order in Argentina, Isabelita will become her country's first female Vice President on inauguration...
Noting her dyed blonde hair (it had once been chestnut brown), many Argentines complained that she intentionally made herself up to look like Evita. Others simply found her cold. "If Eva Peron was passion compressed," grumbled one Peronist, "Isabel is an icebox...
...north. She even managed to enlist the support of her most vocal enemies, the party's left-wing youth. They organized a huge crowd for her at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque airport, which significantly cheered both Peron and Isabelita. In all, it was precisely the kind of stumping Evita made famous among the descamisados (shirtless ones), who loved her as much for her queenly air as for the hard cash she bestowed on public projects...