I was unable to get a copy of Official Story, so I watched Evita instead. In order to complete my fourth blog assignment, I've adapted Dr. Jones' prompt to fit the movie that I watched. Combining events that actually happened in Argentina during the time of Eva Peron's untimely death and actual events that happened afterwards, I have developed a timeline to attribute to her life. Since she was actually dead when most of this timeline happened, some of the events are ficticious (such as her cancer treatment, although is was are real treatment in 1952 for her type of cancer, the divorce, and the train station events).
2. Write a brief biography of Eva Peron in Evita. Instead of Eva dying at age 33, what else could she have accomplished if she had lived longer?
2. Write a brief biography of Eva Peron in Evita. Instead of Eva dying at age 33, what else could she have accomplished if she had lived longer?
May 7, 1919: Eva was born.
January 2, 1935: Eva moved to Buenos Aires.
March 1942: Eva began her career in radio.
January 22, 1944: Eva met Juan Peron.
October 22, 1945: Eva and Juan were married.
December 31, 1945: Eva and Juan began the first Presidential campaign. (Juan is elected in 1946)
June 6, 1947: Eva began the "Rainbow Tour".
1947-1948: Eva continued her work for the Foundation.
January 9, 1950: Eva was diagnosed with cancer.
August 31, 1951: Eva declined the Vice-President nomination.
Source for above timeline: http://members.aol.com/EvaPeron/timeline.html
December 31, 1951: Eva and Juan began the second Presidential campaign. (Juan is elected in 1952.)
June 15, 1952: Eva was treated at the Mayo Clinic with a radioactive colloidal gold treatment for endometrial cancer. (Source: Radioactive colloidal gold in the treatment of endometrial cancer: Mayo clinic experience, 1952 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112678663/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0)
July 1, 1952: Eva disappeared from public view for 12 months while she was under going cancer treatment. Argentina’s economy rapidly began to decline as did the nation’s confidence in their government. Without Eva’s balcony appearances to keep the Peron administration safe and secure in the eyes of its followers and backers, the majority began to realize that they were suffering instead of prospering.
Increases in wages increased meat consumption resulting in a decline in meat exports. Due to a bad harvest, wheat had to be imported. Nationalist Peronists lost favor with the people due to a new negotiation with Standard Oil (in New Jersey).
April 9, 1953: Eva’s brother and Peron’s private secretary was found dead in the street. The news was withheld from Eva for several months because of the declining condition of her health.
May, 1953: Perón signed a treaty that would lead to an economic union between Argentina and Chile. A similar treaty was signed with Paraguay. Argentina and Great Britain signed a trade agreement. The visit to Argentina by Milton Eisenhower, President Dwight Eisenhower's brother and special representative, was quite significant since it initiated a normalization of relations with the U.S.
August 1, 1953: Eva stood on the infamous balcony, looking as beautiful and healthy as ever, claiming her cancer was in remission and she was ready to resume support of her husband’s causes and would soon begin working with reform projects that would greatly improve Argentina’s economy and her people’s standard of living.Fall, 1954: Juan and Eva Peron began to clash in their ideas of what steps were needed to improve living conditions for the Argentinean people. During her illness and recuperation, Peron realized how must influence Eva had over his political decisions and he began resenting her involvement, making a vow to his closest staff members that if Eva recovered, she no longer would have the political influence she once had.
December, 1954: Congress passed a divorce bill which created a massive conflict between Church and State that was further exacerbated when on December 30 Perón allowed the reopening of brothels. Peron expelled two Catholic priests from the country and was excommunicated for the Roman Catholic Church.
March 8, 1955: Eva Peron moved into the west wing of the presidential residence. Maria Sanchez, Peron’s new love interest moved into his private quarters.
April 17, 1955: Eva Peron filed for divorce from Juan Peron.
September 16, 1955: A nationalist military group took power in a coup. The military regime accused Peronist leaders of corruption, but no one was prosecuted. Peron sought exile in Paraguay.
(Aside: June 19, 1948: Eva Peron established the Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation, a non-profit organization created to bridge gaps in the national safety net in order to transform the traditional concept of beneficence and redefining it within the Personista idea of social justice.)
Fall, 1955: The military coup dismantled the Eva Peron Foundation.
December 9, 1955: Determined to continue her fight for social justice and reform, Eva found a new balcony to stand on at the train station in Buenos Aires. For four days, eight hours a day, Eva spoke (shouted) to “the people” from her new podium. The military force ignored her until the fifth day, when so many supports showed up, shouting “Evita, Evita, Evita” that the train station was unable to operate its normal schedule.
December 13, 1955: Evita was arrested but it was impossible for the military police to take her to jail because of the throng of supporters on the train station lawn. Thousands continued to shout, “Free Our Evita. Free Our Evita.” After being apprehended for only 30 minutes, Eva reappeared on the train station balcony.
Eva’s popularity was so extraordinary, that the new military presence decided to keep a close eye on her, but let her do her work for fear that her unprecedented political influence might hinder their work. Eva, in return, keep as distant from the military as possible while intent on not allowing it to become an obstacle in her reform work. Eva gained new wealthy supports from those who had opposed her husband’s political interests and work, but in the background were actually moral supporters of Eva’s. Now that Eva and Juan Peron were no longer associated, these wealthy supports publicly came forward as benefactors for her causes.
March 14, 1955: The Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation was renamed The Maria Eva Durante Foundation and was officially reestablished for operation with the following goals (and accomplishments):
(Aside: June 19, 1948: Eva Peron established the Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation, a non-profit organization created to bridge gaps in the national safety net in order to transform the traditional concept of beneficence and redefining it within the Personista idea of social justice.)
Fall, 1955: The military coup dismantled the Eva Peron Foundation.
December 9, 1955: Determined to continue her fight for social justice and reform, Eva found a new balcony to stand on at the train station in Buenos Aires. For four days, eight hours a day, Eva spoke (shouted) to “the people” from her new podium. The military force ignored her until the fifth day, when so many supports showed up, shouting “Evita, Evita, Evita” that the train station was unable to operate its normal schedule.
December 13, 1955: Evita was arrested but it was impossible for the military police to take her to jail because of the throng of supporters on the train station lawn. Thousands continued to shout, “Free Our Evita. Free Our Evita.” After being apprehended for only 30 minutes, Eva reappeared on the train station balcony.
Eva’s popularity was so extraordinary, that the new military presence decided to keep a close eye on her, but let her do her work for fear that her unprecedented political influence might hinder their work. Eva, in return, keep as distant from the military as possible while intent on not allowing it to become an obstacle in her reform work. Eva gained new wealthy supports from those who had opposed her husband’s political interests and work, but in the background were actually moral supporters of Eva’s. Now that Eva and Juan Peron were no longer associated, these wealthy supports publicly came forward as benefactors for her causes.
March 14, 1955: The Maria Eva Duarte de Peron Foundation was renamed The Maria Eva Durante Foundation and was officially reestablished for operation with the following goals (and accomplishments):
*Assist elderly, children, and women with the basic needs of housing, food, and medicine.
*Obtain pensions to people over 60.
*Set up a plan to construct 1000 schools throughout Argentina as well as nursery schools and daycare centers.
*The Amanda Allen Children’s City created shelter to children from two to seven years old who were orphans or whose parents were unable to care for them.
*The Students’ City was a residence for students who came to Buenos Aries to study but had no place to stay.
*The Children’s Tourism Plan enabled children to vacation.
*The Children’s Competitions supported many sports and enabled the Foundation to provide medical checkups to over 300,000 children.
*The Children’s Hospital and Epidemiology Center and the Children’s Recuperation Clinic helped improve children’s health care.
*The Children’s Tourism Plan enabled children to vacation.
*The Children’s Competitions supported many sports and enabled the Foundation to provide medical checkups to over 300,000 children.
*The Children’s Hospital and Epidemiology Center and the Children’s Recuperation Clinic helped improve children’s health care.
July 26, 1959: Eva Peron died. “Her work had become a part of the thousands of men, women, and children who mourned her. [In only forty years] Evita had found the reason for her life and had left to others, as she herself once said when she inaugurated a polyclinic, the easiest task: that of changing the names of the works she had built.”(http://www.evitaperon.org/part3.htm).
The following Internet resources were heavily relied upon:
http://www.answers.com/Juan%20Peron
http://www.studybuddy.nl/english/start.html
http://www.evitaperon.org/part3.htm
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g312741-Buenos_Aires_Capital_Federal_District-Vacations.html
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