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Eva and Juan Perón
Juan Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician three times elected as president but only served one full term. Juan was part of the 1943 military coup and served his first term as president from 1946-1952. His state goals were social justice and economic independence for Argentina. Despite serious economic troubles such as stagflation, Juan's government is remembered for its significant infrastructure and social investments.
He and his second wife, Eva, met in early 1944 during a charity event in Buenos Aires while Juan was still a Colonel. After their wedding two years later and Juan's election to the presidency, Eva played a prominent role as a labor rights advocate and philanthropist. She ran the Ministries of Labor and Health and established the Eva Perón Foundation in 1948, which had a $50 million endowment (nearly 1% of Argentina's GDP at the time). She exerted significant influence over and provided great popular support for her husband's policies.
Juan and Eva remained strongly devoted to helping the working and lower classes of Argentina. Eva died of cancer in 1952. At the news of the nation's spiritual leader's death all activity in Argentina stopped, the government suspended all activity for two days, and popular grief was unprecedented; eight people died and over 2000 injured in crushing mobs trying to get near her body as it was being moved. Juan was overthrown in a 1955 military coup and was exiled to Venezuela, then moved to Spain. He returned to Argentina in 1973 and died in 1974.
Eva and Juan Perón
Juan Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician three times elected as president but only served one full term. Juan was part of the 1943 military coup and served his first term as president from 1946-1952. His state goals were social justice and economic independence for Argentina. Despite serious economic troubles such as stagflation, Juan's government is remembered for its significant infrastructure and social investments.
He and his second wife, Eva, met in early 1944 during a charity event in Buenos Aires while Juan was still a Colonel. After their wedding two years later and Juan's election to the presidency, Eva played a prominent role as a labor rights advocate and philanthropist. She ran the Ministries of Labor and Health and established the Eva Perón Foundation in 1948, which had a $50 million endowment (nearly 1% of Argentina's GDP at the time). She exerted significant influence over and provided great popular support for her husband's policies.
Juan and Eva remained strongly devoted to helping the working and lower classes of Argentina. Eva died of cancer in 1952. At the news of the nation's spiritual leader's death all activity in Argentina stopped, the government suspended all activity for two days, and popular grief was unprecedented; eight people died and over 2000 injured in crushing mobs trying to get near her body as it was being moved. Juan was overthrown in a 1955 military coup and was exiled to Venezuela, then moved to Spain. He returned to Argentina in 1973 and died in 1974.