Word: evitas
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...part, Peronism is also a personality cult-in fact, a split-personality cult-built around the twin legends of the deposed dictator and his dead second wife Eva, whom the Argentine descamisados (shirtless ones) have enshrined as a secular saint. "Perón y Evita," are an enduring political force in Argentina. Walls in Buenos Aires are plastered with fresh posters of a sleek and inspiring Evita Perón, "flag bearer of the workers...
...considered a saint by Argentina's descamisados, or shirtless ones. Her embalmed body, now lodged in a crystal-topped silver coffin, rests in a monastery near Madrid. It will probably follow later, provided Peron can find a burial place that would be safe from the devout depredations of Evita cultists or the angry assaults of anti-Peronistas...
...story was pieced together from various sources last week. It appears that Evita's body arrived in Milan on May 17, 1957, accompanied by Giuseppina Airoldi, a lay sister of the Company of St. Paul. Signora Airoldi believed the body to be that of an Italian woman who had died in Argentina-Maria Maggi, widow of Luigi De Magistris. The body was buried in Lot 86, Garden 41, in Milan's Musocco Cemetery...
...next chapter in Evita's posthumous peregrinations began 14 years later. Last month a man calling himself Carlos Maggi, "brother" of the fictitious Maria, received permission for the exhumation and transport of Maria Maggi's remains to Madrid. The coffin's wooden casing was found to be rotting, but the coffin itself, reportedly of silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body...
...said that Perón is welcome to come back. Political sources note, however, that there are still a lot of Argentines who would like to see the old dictator dead. The experts are betting that Perón will not return-not even to bring his beloved Evita home...