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Argentina’s Evita: an indispensable legacy

Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on July 27, 2022 by Atilio A. Boron (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World) (Posted Jul 30, 2022)

It is seventy years since the death of Evita, an extraordinary character in Argentine and Latin American history. Owner of a penetrating and mobilizing oratory, she was a proudly plebeian popular leader whose class instinct defined the most advanced and contesting features of Peronism.