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In July 1952,

1952, some 3 million people gathered in the heart of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.

They had come to pay their last respects to Ava Perron, the president's wife.

Overcome by emotion, a frenzied crowd poured forward, leading to a crush in which eight people

were killed and thousands injured.

Despite the huge crowds, Ava Perone or Evita, as she was known, was a divisive figure,

and her death was a milestone in rather than the end of her political

influence in Argentina.

In this episode I explore the story of Avita.

Ava Peron was born in 1919 into the lowest social run of Argentine society.

She was a female in a patriarchal nation.

She was illegitimate in a conservative Catholic country, and her mother was a pauper shunned by society for being an unwed single parent.

Despite her humble origins, Ava had big dreams.

She ran away with a musician to Born Azarese, with the idea of being a movie

actress. The relationship didn't last, but despite the odds, she forged a successful career for herself as an actress.

Her life changed forever, when it to fundraise her for earthquake victims, she met a widowed military veterans. a fundraiser

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