Argentina’s adored first lady led an incredible life. But the lurid events that unfolded after her death were the stuff of ...

Eva María Duarte de Perón was born May 7, 1919, and died on July 26, 1952. She is usually known as Eva Peron or Evita. She was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and First Lady of ...

Perón was a widower aged almost 50 when he and Eva met; she was in her mid-twenties. The couple married roughly a year later, in October 1945, a few months before Perón was elected president.

Eva Perón, of course, is generally considered a controversial figure, but she wasn’t to those in the Vilaro household. Article content. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, also known as "Evita", became a powerful political influence and was idolized by the poor in Argentina during her time as Argentina's first lady. After her death in 1952 ...

Eva Peron, of course, is generally considered a controversial figure, but she wasn’t to those in the Vilaro household. Article content. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

As for Eva Peron's body, in October 1976 it was finally taken from Los Olivos and placed in her family's mausoleum in Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires. The operation was overseen by the dictatorship.

As the first lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952, Eva Perón exerted a great deal of influence at a time when women were not expected to occupy a high political office.

Yet choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa does a remarkable job of tipping Eva “Evita” Perón off her pedestal in this 70-minute-long production, which opened Wednesday at the Kennedy Center.

Some 12 miles southwest of the city of Buenos Aires is a remarkable settlement called Ciudad Evita. It was founded in 1947 by the then-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, in tribute to his wife, Eva.