Saint or swindler? Why, more than 70 years after her death, Eva Perón remains so fascinating - IN FOCUS: As Tim Rice and ...

"For me, she is the saint of the people," the 56-year-old Argentine said. Many union members think of Evita as their patron or gaze at her photos with nostalgia, feeling that she and her husband ...

It’s no easy task to wipe the slate clean on an iconic figure of stage and screen, and to offer a fresh take on Argentina’s ... job of tipping Eva “Evita” Perón off her pedestal in ...

Thinner and paler than ever after a month’s illness, Evita Perón came back last week to perhaps her greatest triumph. The occasion was the Peronistas’ Loyalty Day, celebrating the day in 1945 ...

The result was a support base constantly at war with itself—and with dramatically different opinions of Perón’s secret weapon ...

Outside, a man with a crepe-draped Argentine flag perched ... performed a hysterectomy. But Evita’s zeal grew as her health declined. “Peron is the air we breathe, Perón is our sun, Perón ...

Eva Peron, known as Evita, was an icon in 1940s Argentina, famous for her populist rhetoric. Her most famous speech inspired the award-winning song Don’t Cry for Me Argentina. Show more Eva ...

BUENOS AIRES, July 25 (Reuters) - The life of Argentina's legendary First Lady Evita Peron left an indelible mark on her country, but in the years after she died in 1952 a bizarre tale unfolded in ...

Learn about the songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's second hit show, including "Buenos Aires", "Rainbow High", and ...