How Did Eva Peron Come To Power

Eva Peron, also known as Evita, was the most powerful woman in Latin American history and encountered a great deal of attention because of this. She was truly a fascinating person who the people admired and looked up to. Eva was the second wife of Argentina’s president Juan Peron and served as the First Lady from 1946-1952. Evita is possibly the most powerful woman of the 20th century and this is due to her being a caudilla: a political leader, even though she was not directly in power and it was her husband who was president. Eva was able to take on the role of a caudilla through her appeal of the lower class people, the fact that both she and her husband represented a larger world response to the terrible consequences of the depression as well as her follower’s devotion and mourning after her death. Evita’s appeal with the lower class people helped her to be a caudilla as she was once one of them. She was born in a rural village as an illegitimate child and desperately wanted recognition. She gained her own power through the working class and her many followers watched her work her way up in the classes. Through her compassion

Evita had a large role in the destruction of Argentine democracy which lead Argentina to become a very urbanized, and both an economically and socially complex society. Juan Peron treated Eva differently than past woman in politics when it came to political meetings. Historically meetings used to be only an all-male contingency but Juan allowed Evita into the meetings. She took this as an opportunity to at first just listen, but as time went on she began to incorporate Peron’s views into her own political values and press for issues in