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Suddenly two of the ten heroic statues atop the Buenos Aires building that was to have been headquarters for the huge Eva Peron Charity Foundation appeared shrouded in burlap. The pair: a complacent Juan Peron, hand on hip, surveying Buenos Aires in an open-collared shirt, and a saintly Eva Peron, in a plain dress with outstretched hand. Thus, with monumental effrontery, had Peron ranked himself and his wife with Argentina's Washington, General Jose de San Martin (the seven remaining statues symbolized old age, children, various typical workers). Aramburu's government planned to lower...
Also removed from public view were some live Peronistas. Major General Franklin Lucero. the Army Minister who shored up Juan Peron after last June's unsuccessful revolution, and Major General Jose Humberto Sosa Molina, Peron's Defense Minister, were jailed. So was Hugo de Pietro, last Peronista boss of the General Confederation of Labor...
Argentine marines swooped into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the diehard Peronista labor confederation, in a double-locked room discovered a white-shrouded body laid out on a long table flanked by evergreens. The corpse: none other than Eva Peron, perfectly preserved though three years dead of cancer, whose whereabouts was till now a mystery to Argentina's victorious revolutionaries. With ex-Dictator Juan Peron (the "immortal widower") now in exile, Eva's remains will probably be turned over to her mother for burial at last...
Despite all these efforts to spread news within Argentina, Einaudi reports, students probably had very little to do with engineering the actual revolt last September. But once the students knew that Peron was on the way out, they became one of the first groups to demonstrate in the streets in support of Lonardi...
When Einaudi was in Buenos Aires, he found the revolutionary sentiment still strong among the students. There was a tremendous release of pent-up hatred of Peron, and the streets were often full of people talking until 10 p.m. Students were also interested in queueing up with other citizens to view the displays of the jewels, furs, sportscars, and other luxuries of Juan and Eva Peron. But even more than demonstrating and looking at remnants of an old regime, the students want to establish a solid democracy, Einaudi feels. As one student said, "We want all of this...