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...qualifications for the job. She is Argentina's glamorous and vivacious First Lady and is all but certain to be its next President. Feel free to make the inevitable comparison to the country's 20th century heroine, because Fernàndez, 54, enjoys being called the "new Evita." She certainly shares some of Eva Perón's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province and then President. And like her U.S. counterpart, Fern...
With both Evita and Isabel Peron still in its living memory, Argentina is not unused to the idea of conjugal succession to the presidency. Still, it is a startling political development that the current First Lady, a left-leaning firebrand senator named Cristina Kirchner, will run for the presidency in the country's upcoming October elections. Her husband, incumbent Peronist President Nestor Kirchner, who remains more popular than his wife in the polls, will step aside from seeking reelection after four successful years in office...
Whether that is the Kirchners' plan remains to be seen. But it is all within the realm of Argentine political tradition. President Juan Peron's second wife Eva (or Evita, as she has become known in history and musical theater) was clearly his equal and, if not for her early death, may have become his successor. Peron's third wife Isabel was elected as his Vice-President and did succeed him after he died in the presidency in 1974. She was deposed by a military coup...
...theater's highlight outside of showtime is Uys' collection of apartheid kitsch. "My idea was to create a Disneyland of bad political taste for Evita to preside over," he explains. Atop her piano on her small stage is a bust of former Prime Minister and apartheid architect H.F. Verwoerd that's been made into a lamp. "It used to have a plaque on it that said, 'Let he who gave us darkness, now give us light,' but it fell off," admits Uys. Next door, in the Museum Nauseum, an intimate 80-seat theater, old political posters advise voters...
...just an hour north of Cape Town, so you can make a day visit. "Some people go to Robben Island in the morning and then come to us. From the sublime to the ridiculous," says Uys. Evita is on stage every weekend from February through August. tel: (27-22) 492 2851/31; www.evita.co.za