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The Death of Evita

31/07/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Death of Evita

Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952.

Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952. Witness hears from two people who met her.

On July 26 1952 Argentina's controversial First Lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires. During her short life she had become an icon for women and the poor in the South American nation. In 2012 Krupa Padhy spoke to two very different Argentine women who remember meeting her.

Photo: President Juan Peron and his wife, Eva Peron, at a demonstration in Buenos Aires, August 1951. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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