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Eva Peron mourned anew after 50 years Wife of Argentine ruler was loved as saint, hated as devil
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--Fifty years after the radio bulletin that
rocked a nation with the news that their beloved Evita had died of
cancer at 33, Argentines mourned her death anew Friday.
Thousands filed past the black marble crypt of Maria Eva Duarte de
Peron, Argentina's most famous first lady, to mark the anniversary of
her death on July 26, 1952. She was popularly called Evita.
Clusters of Argentine workers, the elderly and others wearing
lapel pins in national colors left bouquets at the grave in Buenos
Aires' Recoleta cemetery.
"Evita represented social justice, generosity, love and ...
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