This week I will be looking at the influence of Evita and the renunciamento. I found it interesting how Evita would often conflate herself with the people, such as when she said: “my General, we the people, your vanguard of descamisados…”. Here she associates herself with the people by saying “we”, but at other times […]
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This week’s topic has been my favourite so far. Eva Perón is one of my heros/ idols (she’s no Cher, but she is right up there!). Yes, the politics of the Eva and Juan Perón are interesting, but only focusing on peronismo does such a disservice to the life that Eva led and what has […]
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