“Evita is the name that became the flag of the most humble. It is the name of the woman who dedicated her life to the cause of the popular majorities,” highlighted the mayor of Esteban Echeverría, Fernando Gray, at 105 years old. of his birth.
Gray remembered Eva Duarte in from “The Standard Bearer of the Humble.”
“We remember her with love, passion and the commitment to follow her example in the fight for a more just, free and sovereign Argentina,” Gray also highlights in the text that, together with the video that ends with Evita’s phrase “I know that you They will collect my name and carry it as a flag to victory.”
Evita was born in Los Toldos, near Junín, on June 7, 1919. She grew up with three sisters and a brother, all raised by their mother. She came to Buenos Aires at a very young age, with the dream of being an actress. She worked in radio and film. She met Juan Domingo Perón in 1944 and married him after the historic October 17, 1945.
Becoming First Lady, she led social action through the foundation that bore her name. She also joined the fight for the female vote and resigned from being a candidate for vice president in 1951. Cancer ended her life at the age of 33, on July 26, 1952. Her body was stolen and abused after the overthrow of Perón and was Buried under a false name in Milan until 1971. Today he rests in the Recoleta cemetery.
