Word: rioja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight from Buenos Aires to a golf and cartoon holiday was the latest chapter in a singularly improbable career. Born Maria Estela Martinez in 1931, the sixth child of a middle-class family from the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja, Isabel owes her tenuous hold on power to a chance encounter with Juan Perón in 1956. Then 25, she was a petite dancer touring Central America with a troupe called Joe and his Ballets. Perón, then 60, had just been overthrown by a military coup following nine years as President. After catching...
...many Argentines still feel uncomfortable with Isabelita as La Presidenta. They distrust a woman in such a high position and question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...
...petite and well-preserved blonde, Isabelita was born to a middle-class family in the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja. After leaving home in her early 20s, she joined a troupe of touring folk dancers. She met the exiled Perón in Panama City in 1956 while she was performing in a nightclub and married him five years later in Madrid...