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Juan Peron was an Argentinian president who was a dictator who Fascist tendencies from 1946-1955 and 1972-1974, when he died. He was a soldier originally who in a coup became Secretary of Labor in 1943, then he went to prison, because some military personals feared he was getting powerful in 1945, which he goes to jail. Then in October 17th, a large rally occurs calling for the release of Juan Peron, which he is released. He marries Maria Eva Duarte, who becomes Evita Peron. This was Juan Peron's second marriage. His first wife died of cancer. He is elected in...

Posted: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 20:00 AEST Former Argentine leader's body to be exhumed for paternity suit The body of legendary Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron is to be exhumed in order to settle a paternity suit. A woman claiming to be his only child wants a DNA test performed on his remains. The decision to exhume Mr Peron's body comes after 10 years of legal wrangling by a 64-year-old woman who says the former Argentine strongman is her father. Marta Susana Holgado claims she was born out of a secret affair that Mr Peron had while he was still...

Argentina's Chief Is Sworn In and Comes Out Fighting By LARRY ROHTER BUENOS AIRES, May 25 — Promising to "reconstruct our identity as a people and a nation" after the worst economic crisis in Argentina's history, Néstor Kirchner was sworn in as president today. He immediately issued strong challenges to foreign creditors, the armed forces and the political establishment, which has opposed his unexpected rise to power. In a 50-minute inauguration speech, Mr. Kirchner, who for the past dozen years has been the governor of a remote and sparsely populated province in Patagonia, took a markedly nationalist tone. He made...

Once they wanted for nothing, but the debt crisis that brought down their Government left them poor and angry ONE year — and five presidents — after Argentina announced the largest sovereign debt default in history, Ana-Maria Molinari and her family live in desperately reduced circumstances. “We were a normal middle-class family living well, wanting for nothing. We improved our home, we ate well, we went on holidays twice, three times a year,” said Señora Molinari, 38, who lives with her husband and their two teenage daughters in a once-smart suburb of Buenos Aires that is now showing signs of...