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Some 12 miles southwest of the city of Buenos Aires is a remarkable settlement called Ciudad Evita. It was founded in 1947 by the then-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, in tribute to his wife, Eva.

EVA Peron DIDN'T leave anything to chance, not even her own immortality. Lying on her deathbed in 1952, ravaged by cancer, Argentina's First Lady was thinking ahead: she arranged for a mausoleum as ...

SAN VICENTE, Argentina -- Juan Peron and his glamorous wife, Eva, were inseparable in life, but uniting them in death is proving difficult. Fifty years after their rule in Argentina, construction of a ...