Perón
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Eva Duarte de 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
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Juan (Domingo) 1895–1974, Argentine military and political leader: president 1946–55, 1973–74.
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Juan Domingo (xwan doˈmɪnɡo). 1895–1974, Argentine soldier and statesman; dictator (1946–55). He was deposed in 1955, remaining in exile until 1973, when he was elected president (1973–74)
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his third wife, María Estella (maˈria esˈteʎa), known as Isabel. born 1931, president of Argentina (1974–76); deposed
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( María ) Eva ( Duarte ) de Perón (ˈeβa), known as Evita. Second wife of Juan Domingo Perón. 1919–52, Argentine film actress: active in politics and social welfare (1946–52)
Other Word Forms
- Peronist noun
Example Sentences
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Imagine if, in “Evita,” audiences members were invited to sing back up on the balcony as Eva Perón belts out “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” accompanying her in her last manipulative hurrah.
From Los Angeles Times
Its first owner, Argentine President Juan Perón, fell in love with the two-tone hardtop car, with a lustrous cream color on the roof and rich mahogany on the bottom, at the Paris Salon.
President Néstor Kirchner of the Peronist party, a left-wing movement founded by strongman leader Juan Perón, later raised export taxes to finance increased spending, claiming this would also hold down families’ food bills by diverting sales from foreign to domestic markets, said Pablo Guidotti, an economist at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires.
In power for much of the past two decades, the opposition Peronists—a left-wing movement descended from post-World War II leader Juan and Eva Peron—seem to be losing its hold over one of Latin America’s biggest economies.
The party, founded by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1940s and long associated with Argentina’s welfare state, remains a formidable force but failed to mobilize disenchanted voters as inflation eased from its historic highs.
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