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Eva Perón

Argentine political figure and actress
Also known as: Eva Duarte de Perón, Evita, María Eva Duarte
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Eva Perón (born May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, Argentina—died July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires) was the second wife of Argentine Pres. Juan Perón, who, during her husband’s first term as president (1946–52), became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Duarte was born in the small town of Los Toldos on the Argentine Pampas. Her parents, Juan Duarte and Juana Ibarguren, were not married, and her father had a wife...

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