Word: isabelita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Peronistas would believe her. And that is just what the people crowding on the Calle French are-still waiting patiently, along with 3,000,000 other faithful Peronistas throughout Argentina, for El Lider's return. Isabelita has given them welcome encouragement. The former chorine whom Peron took up with in 1956 shortly after his exile and married in 1961, arrived in Buenos Aires last fall with twelve suitcases, $30,000 worth of jewels and a Spanish hairdresser for a duenna-and sparked angry riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas. After an emotional 8,000-mile tour...
...sent her over partly to whip into line those faction chiefs who want to move on without the aging strongman, notably tough Augusto ("El Lobo") Vandor, who since her return has taken over the giant General Confederation of Labor, historic citadel of Peronismo. Perón obviously hoped that Isabelita would prove as dynamic and domineering as his previous wife, the fabulous Evita-and Isabelita has rallied 14 of the 52 Peronista Deputies in Parliament and 18 of the 62 Peronista unions, claims 20% of the rank and file as well...
...impressive vote. In preparation, her lieutenants were busy last week planning a "national assembly of Peronismo" to be held in Tucumán, which is expected to rally 3,500 delegates to her support. El Lobo (The Wolf) is still unimpressed. Commented one photographer as he watched Isabelita click into the house on the Calle French: "There goes the Little Red Ridinghood that El Lobo is going...
...cluster of newsmen posted outside his lavish villa in suburban Madrid, it looked like any other day in the life of Juan Domingo Perón. There had been the usual trickle of callers in the afternoon and evening. At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina. Later, as always, Perón went upstairs to watch television, which invariably occupies him until Spain's only channel goes off the air at 12:30 a.m. Instead, with...
...return was originally proposed by Peronista leaders as an expedient to help reunite their slowly splintering movement. At first, El Lider was lukewarm to the idea, but gradually, as Perón talked more and more about it, the vision of a triumphal recovery of power became an obsession. Isabelita, too, became infected, soon dreamed of replacing her old rival Eva. By last week, when several key Perón aides advised him against El Retorno, the mirage had gripped Perón's brain like a drug...