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...Per??n fled, first to Paraguay and then to other Latin American countries. He finally settled in Spain in 1960. There he lived in a $500,000 villa. Despite rumors that he had sacked Argentina's treasury, Per??n's apologists insisted that his supporters bankrolled his regal lifestyle in exile...
...Despite Per??n's departure, Peronism proved to be an amazingly durable factor in Argentine politics?increasingly so as the years passed and his legend became romanticized. Peronism soon claimed the loyalty of about half the population, a spectrum that included neofascists, far-left urban guerrillas, and trade unionists. From exile, the ousted President stayed in touch with his loyalists in Argentina through lengthy letters, taped messages and personal emissaries. He remained the most important single factor in Argentine politics. A succession of five military and three civilian governments found themselves unable to govern effectively, partly because of the discontent?...
...returned home last year in response to his countrymen's desperate summons, his appearance triggered a paroxysm of jubilation. Hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer him, but more than 100 were killed as rightist and leftist Peronistas ended up fighting each other. The violence was symbolic of Per??n's last reign: he was too old and too ill to solve Argentina's festering problems...
...choking back tears, announced that he had died. And it was again she?dressed in black unadorned with jewelry?who symbolized Argentina's sorrow. The icy smile, the tightly pulled-back hair dyed dark blonde and the slightly strident voice of Maria Estela ("Isabelita") Martinez de Per??n, 43, last week dominated the thoughts of Argentines nearly as much as did the death of her husband Juan Per?...
Elected Argentine Vice President last September (at Per??n's insistence), Isabelita constitutionally succeeded her husband as president, thus becoming the first woman chief of state in the history of Argentina and the Americas. Although her education never progressed beyond high school, she is not without political experience. During Per??n's exile in Spain, she twice returned alone to Argentina to end squabbles among the Peronistas. She acted as Per??n's intermediary with the endless stream of supporters who visited him in Spain, and even represented him in China, where she had talks with both Chairman...