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Eva Perón

January 2023

  • A mural commemorating people who disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship.

    Rights and freedom
    Adopted by their parents’ enemies: tracing the stolen children of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’

    After the 1976 coup, the military brutally crushed its opponents. At least 500 babies were taken from their captured parents and given to military couples to raise. Many still live unaware of their true identity

October 2022

  • Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit in Evita Too at Soho theatre.

    Evita Too review – discos among the death squads in a gorgeously disordered show

    A different Mrs Perón gets the mega-musical treatment in Sh!t Theatre’s hilarious, sinister comedy about the ethics of populism and the heartbreak of loss

July 2022

  • A woman holds a photo of Argentina's late first lady Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, better known as Evita

    Argentinians remember Eva Perón – in pictures

    Argentines gather in capital to mourn country’s iconic first lady, 70 years after her death

May 2021

  • Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and other demonstrators in Buenos Aires display portraits of Argentinians who disappeared under the military regime. Now DNA tests are being used to help identify the remains of the victims.

    Rights and freedom
    Argentina sends out DNA kits in drive to identify thousands ‘disappeared’ under dictatorship

    Move is part of groundbreaking effort to name 30,000 murdered by regime after 1976 coup

August 2019

  • Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Samantha Pauly as Eva Perón, Trent Saunders as Che, Adam Pearce as Augustín Magaldi and Company. Photo Marc Brenner

    Evita review – Argentina's queen of hearts as a high-school mean girl

    Andrew Lloyd Webber’s epic gets a rock-concert revival that features pom-poms and twerking but lacks central chemistry

August 2018

  • Statue of Sappho

    Brief letters
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November 2015

  • Eva Peron already has its own beer at Buenos Aires<br>07 Nov 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina --- Buenos Aires, Argentina. 7th November 2013 -- A Eva Pern tribute altar inside the bar “Pern Pern”. -- Eva Peron, the most famous woman in Argentina, already has her own blonde beer. At “Pern Pern” bar in Palermo neighborhood, beer-makers are brewing and selling artisan brand “Evita”. --- Image by © Claudio Santisteban/Demotix/Corbis

    The foodie traveller
    Pies and politics in Buenos Aires' Perón Perón cafe

    More than a meeting place for the Peron party, this kitsch ‘resto bar’ is a shrine to Juan and Evita and serves the general’s favourite comfort food

October 2015

  • The Peron Wave<br>Argentinian president, Juan Peron, (1895 - 1974) and his wife, Eva Peron (1919 - 1952), saluting a demonstration in their honour at Buenos Aires. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

    Shadow of Perón looms large over Argentina's presidential election

    The shape-shifting movement Juan and Eva Perón founded is more influential than ever. The question is not if the next president will be a Peronist but what sort of Peronist

September 2014

  • evita madalena alberto marti pellow

    Evita review – shout it loud, showgirl dictatorship is back with a bang

  • Eva-Maria Westbroek in the lead role in Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House.

    What makes a musical leading lady?

  • Elaine Paige as Evita in 1978

    How we made
    How we made Evita: Tim Rice and Elaine Paige

  • "You must love me"… Bill Kenwright's production of Evita returning to the West End

    'The truth is I never left you' … Evita through the years – in pictures

July 2012

  • Eva Peron banknote

    Evita fits the bill – Eva Perón to become first woman on Argentinian banknotes

    Former first lady immortalised in film as Evita will be honoured on 100 peso notes, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner says

September 2007

  • Hidden photos of Evita reveal real woman behind the icon

    A more 'intimate, sweet and spontaneous' side of Evita is said to have been revealed for the first time with the discovery and restoration of more than 600 images documenting her six years as Argentina's first lady.

March 2004

  • Losing Eva

    The silk shroud covering the embalmed remains of Eva Peron sold yesterday at auction for £84,000.

July 2002

  • Net notes
    Eva Peron

    She has been dead for half a century, but stage and screen adaptations of her controversial life keep her memory alive. Read our web guide to Argentina's leading first lady.

January 2001

  • Evita 'pantomime' scorned by our man in Buenos Aires

    Diplomat's view at odds with later images of Eva Peron.
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