Eva - aka Evita - Peron's tomb is the most visited in the cemetery, much to the fury of the country's elite.
Evita [neé Duarte] was an ex-actress and second wife of Juan Peron, President of Argentina from 1946-1955. Evita famously championed civil rights for Argentina's poor and oppressed, very much against the wishes of her fascist husband and his cronies.
Eva died of cancer at the tender age of 33, and such was the antagonism towards this low-class upstart that opponents conspired to whisk her embalmed body off to Spain where she languished for years before Eva's supporters kidnapped the body of Eva's nemesis, General Pedro Aramburu, in order to persuade the government to permit her burial home in Argentina.
Juan Peron's body lies in a different cemetery, in Chacarita, while General Aramburu is interred within spitting distance of Evita. Strange but true...
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