On a dark and windy night in April 1957, Argentine Colonel Carlos sneaked into a memorial hall with a few soldiers, and several people pried open the heavy gate and went straight to a coffin inside the museum, which was secretly transported to a secret military base. The news of the coffin's theft the next day made the Argentines fry the pan, and an angry crowd gathered in front of the presidential building to demonstrate in front of the presidential building, demanding that the coffin be recovered, almost causing a popular uprising. What coffin is so important to Argentines?
In this coffin is the god of the Argentine heart, Madame Perón - Evita. The 1995 film "Madame Perón", starring the singer Madonna, is based on the first lady of Argentina, so that the first lady of South America, who did not receive much attention from the Western world during her lifetime, made her name a legend after decades of death. How can a life of ups and downs be sung so enduringly? We're going to talk today about Evita Veron's story.
In 1919, Evita was born in a remote town not far from the capital, and her mother Juana fell in love with a small landowner, but this man was a scumbag who only regarded Juana as a mistress, and Juana gave birth to six children after Evita. The small landlord abandoned their family. The mother was forced to take on the responsibility of raising six children alone, but it was difficult to support these children from morning to night, and the malnourished and thin Evita, coupled with the identity of an illegitimate daughter, was ridiculed and ostracized by others in the local area. But their mother told them not to give up hope because of poverty, and insisted on sending them to school, hoping to change their destiny. Therefore, her mother's education has planted the seeds of change in the heart of little Evita.
In Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s, just by selling beef and mutton to the whole world, it could be sold into a developed country, but this also led to the vast majority of Argentina's land in the hands of farmers, who were only satisfied with being the world's granary and had no interest in industrialization. Although GDP per capita is second only to that of the United States and the United Kingdom, the people at the bottom are still suffering. When Evita was fifteen years old, she persuaded her mother to travel alone to Buenos, the capital of Argentina. Like modern people, going out is always beaten up by society. With no skills, she had to sing as a dancer in nightclubs, relying on her young figure and beauty to shuttle among the powerful.
Like all girls, they all have the dream of stardom, so they enter the show business circle, but girls with birth conditions like Evita are not divided. After a few years, the results cannot be said to be no, and it can only be said that the acting lines are not outstanding. And Evita didn't expect that there was no difference between this and the nightclub, greedy and hypocritical. After thinking about it, Evita decided to give up being an actor to go to the radio station, but she did not expect that the first broadcast felt like a fish, and soon became popular all over the country.
But at this time, in the Great Depression of 1929, Argentina, as a country that relied on the export of raw materials, the economy collapsed rapidly, the workers and peasants quickly lost their jobs and went bankrupt, causing domestic political turmoil, and the speed of the Argentine army coup was like dumplings, not only fast but also numerous. They're killing the president almost as fast as they're killing themselves. In this round of farce in which the government came to power and fell, there is an officer who is rising step by step, and gradually becoming a figure who holds real power is Perón. Perón believed that all the previous Argentine regimes were short-lived because they did not organize the power of the people. Therefore, Perón chose to take the mass line and walked with the trade unions, won the support of Argentine workers, and quickly gained great influence in the country.
At this time, Evita was also on the radio in the political commentary on Argentina, and the spit on the Agambtin government was to the point, so Evita quickly became the goddess of justice for them in the working class. Then, during an earthquake charity event in 1944, two people with similar values quickly fell in love. Evita also became a secret weapon in Perón's campaign, and in the radio program, Evita praised Perón at every opportunity, making him the protector of the toiling masses. Soon, Perón rose to the position of vice president and put his ideas into practice, later known as Peronism.
In October 1944, while Veron and Evita were having dinner at home, the army rushed in and imprisoned Perón in a naval prison on martin garcia. At this point, Evita calmly analyzed the situation. The army, the radio, were all controlled by the coup, but the unions were still on their side, and they could unite the workers' forces to overturn, and Evita understood this and immediately rushed to one factory after another, preaching to the workers, telling them that Perón, who had been fighting for your rights a few days ago, was now imprisoned, and the enemy hated Perón's ideas and hated you. To fight for Perón is to fight for yourself. In just a few days, workers poured in from all directions of the capital to protest and demonstrate. In the face of the surging crowd in front of them, the officers were directly frightened by the strength of the people, and they did not even have the courage to suppress. Surrendered in less than a week.
The next day Perón proposed to Evita, and in February 1946 Perón was elected president of Argentina, and at the age of 27, Evita became the first lady of Argentina. After becoming the first lady, she suddenly had a sense of mission, and she traveled non-stop in all corners of society in order to improve the survival, education, rights and other issues of the people at the bottom. The experience of the bottom of her childhood made her always on the side of the people at the bottom, and in 1951 Evita was diagnosed with uterine cancer. In July 1952, Evita died in her hospital room. Her funeral was done according to the president's specifications, and on the day of the funeral, the union's 6 million workers donated a day's salary to build a monument for her. People from all over the country who came to pay respects to Evita crowded the streets, rushing to kiss Ivata's coffin, and countless stampedes. The government finally had to send troops to maintain order.
To this day, on annual anniversaries, many people still spontaneously hold up the portrait of Evita in honor of the first lady of Argentina, Madame Perón.