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...Isabelita as his vice-presidential running mate. The nomination of the 42-year-old former cabaret dancer, bolstered by a publicity campaign extolling her virtues, struck some as a crass attempt by Perón to cast her in the image of his late second wife, the mass-adulated Evita...
...posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called. She has dyed her chestnut hair blonde like Evita's, she wears a silver mink coat like Evita's, she is making good-will tours like Evita's. But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters...
...background, Eisendrath adds, is the mummified corpse of Evita, "the radio announcer who became successively the saint's mistress, his political manager, second wife and, finally, in death, his greatest spiritual asset. The compelling allure of the corpse, which is reportedly being transported to Argentina, is reflected by numerous posters of the dead woman. 'Evita returns,' they proclaim, 'dead or alive!' " In the days ahead, Perón may need all the help he can get. Unless he can move quickly to end the violence, his government's resolve to restore stability in Argentina...
...moment, he was following pure old-style Perón tactics: disarm the opposition before tackling it frontally. This he began to do last week in a meeting held in Buenos Aires' drab Nino Restaurant, where he and his second wife Evita had courted nearly 30 years ago. By sheer force of the Perón magic, 28 political parties-almost the entire spectrum of Argentine political life-were brought together in the same room. Though they would have been at each other's throats only a few weeks before, they listened attentively to his proposal that they...
...trips into the countryside, Perón carried gifts for everybody-candy, bakery goods, a kilo of meat, a pair of shoes. Rarely did peasants realize that the gifts had been "requisitioned" from local shopkeepers. But they were ready to cheer when Evita told them, "There is only one Perón. He is God for us, so much so that we cannot conceive of heaven without Perón. He is our sun, our air, our water, our life...