Eva Peron's Political Image

How did Eva Peron’s political image impact argentine society during the 40s and 50s?

Evita was a political figure who was looked up to and admired by the people of Buenos Aires. She was more than the first lady of Argentina. She spoke up for the people who didn’t have much of a voice in society. Eva Peron was the girl who left Los Toldos to find a life in Buenos Aires, but Evita was who she grew into in Buenos Aires as the first lady. She had originally intended on being an actress, this being the cause of her moving to Argentina. She had soon found a job at a radio station, and met Juan Peron--the future president of Argentina.

Eva had always seen things on the street that bothered her, things such as begging children from orphanages, children in Society’s orphanages who were identified with numbers instead of names who stood on the street corners who would hold tin bowls or stiff signs that read “Collection for Poor Children”. Evita understood what it was like to live poor and without work--she had grown up poor, and a bastard. Evita had visited postwar Europe in 1947 and learned what to do and what not to do to be able to help the people that needed it. All of her schools, hospitals, any villages for seniors, and homes for working women and their children, she had designed so that people would be respected as individuals,

The wife of the president of Argentina. Evita Peron, was a different person. She was a political figure who did everything in her power to help the working class, the sick, the elderly, and the children. She would use the position that Eva Peron had, to help her works and projects as Evita, and they had a tremendous effect that benefit the people intended in just the way that it needed to. Juan Peron is the only president in the “Casa Rosada” to be painted with his wife, and not alone. When she was sick, before she passed away, she said “If I get well and can return to help the poor all I’ll need is a skirt and