Essay On Juan Peron And Eva Peron

Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron ​“Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron” by Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro is a life story of one of the popular political figures in the recent Latin American history. Eva Peron is among the most controversial women in the modern history and a significant Latin American political figure, has also been portrayed as a cultural symbol through movies and popular music over the last decades. The biography exposes Eva Peron’s real humanity, and it does not only focus on her achievements but also her failures and eccentricities. ​Fraser and Navarro’s book carries the life of Peron from birth to death in a chronological sequence. The first chapter of the biography gives the details of Peron’s family survival on the

During the movie Machuca it was evident that there were severe tensions between the classes. This can be seen through many of the characters in the movie. However, in this report I will discuss which two characters who better represented the class tensions and why. I will then conclude with how this parallels with the tensions that were found in Allende’s government at the time, which consequently resulted in the democratic breakdown of Chile.

Juan Nepomuceno Seguin – Was a 19th-century Texas Senator, mayor, judge, and Justice of the Peace and a prominent participant in the Texas Revolution. Juan Nepomuceno Seguin was born in San Antonio de Bexar on October 27, 1806. He was the older of two sons of Erasmo Seguin

The 1959 novel, Pocho, by José Antonio Villarreal is an insightful cultural exposition told primarily from the vantage point of Richard Rubio, the coming-of-age son of immigrant Mexican parents who eventually settle in Santa Clara, California, after many seasons of migrant farm work. Although fiction, the story likely mirrors some of the experiences of the author who was born to migrant laborers in Los Angeles in 1924 and was himself a "pocho" - a child of the depression era Mexican-American transition. ("I am a Pocho," he said, "and we speak like this because here in California we make Castilian words out of English words." p 165)

Emiliano Zapata, born on August 8, 1879, in the village of Anenecuilco, Morelos (Mexico), Emiliano Zapata was of mestizo heritage and the son of a peasant medier, (a sharecropper or owner of a small plot of land). From the age of eighteen, after the death of his father, he had to support his mother and three sisters and managed to do so very successfully. The little farm prospered enough to allow Zapata to augment the already respectable status he had in his native village. In September of 1909, the residents of Anenecuilco elected Emiliano Zapata president of the village's "defense committee," an age-old group charged with defending the community's interests. In this position, it was Zapata's duty to represent his village's

Benito Mussolini outlines several essential characteristics of his preferred political ideology, Fascism, in what has become known as the Doctrine of Fascism. In this paper, Mussolini outlines his vision of the ideology, and explains the major issues that Fascism will address once it becomes the leading political system in Italy. Mussolini’s major points as outlined in the Doctrine included an extreme emphasis on nationalism, organization and modernization of the state, persistent focus on religion, life as a struggle, and the notion that individuals exist only for the improvement of society as a whole. Wolfgang Schieder, after reviewing the Doctrine of Fascism, explains Mussolini’s success based on it and

During the forty-three year Somoza dictatorship a revolution was proved inevitable. During the period of the Somoza regime many conflicts between the government and the people arose. Some of these conflicts were mainly with the National Guard, but in 1978 conflicts hit its climax. In 1978, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a salient newspaper editor and leader to the Somoza opposition was assassinated; it is believed that by one of Somoza’s business man. This mans death gave a deep feeling of commotion throughout the country, establishing a nation wide strike against the Somoza government. The National Guard responded to the attacks by assassinating many civilians and violating many others rights.

This stance made him popular amongst conservatives as well. While he started his ten year term with large support, the cracks slowly started to show as the years progressed. In the beginning, his wife Evita helped grow his appeal as she became a cult figure and created woman’s institutions like a women Perónist party. But after years of a healthy looking economy and growth, problems started to arise in 1949. Inflation began to rise and unemployment grew. Perón tried to fix this by creating new government jobs to make it look as if there was no problem. Many of his political opponents were tortured, detained, or exiled. This also led to the signs of huge government corruption. After being elected for another term in 1952, Perón tries to make his wife vice president to which the military leaders said he was not allowed. Shortly after his reelection, Evita dies of cancer. This along with the seemingly unfixable problem which was the economy, assassination plots began to be muttered. Military rebellions began to break out around the country and Perón had the police round up his opponents. Seeing the country in chaos, Perón resigns in 1955 and is exiled to Paraguay and then Spain. The military was in control again and proceeded to ban the Perónist party. With Perón setting a precedent for mass protest in the country, the 20 years before the beginning of the dirty war were a battle between military intervention and the

Exile: when one is sent away from their native country for political reasons. Many cruel dictators were sent to exile after what they did to their country and Juan Perón is one of them. Perón helped with a successful military coup that put him into power in the first place. Despite being anti-communist and fascist, he had the support of the Nazi troops. He supported the working class, even though he supported labor of the poorer classes.

By now they had a relationship going and many people were not very fond of it. Eva convinced Peron to help the working class and the government did not like this at all. On October 9, something happened that would start a new change in the course of there lives, the president asked Peron to resign, Peron did. And Eva had been fired from the Belgrano radio. This was a moment when Eva would speak for their rights and fight for what she believed was right. So after Peron resigned Eva organized a lot of people who Peron had once helped and asked them that now it was their turn to help Juan Domingo Peron. A lot of people mostly the working class would stand up to the media and had Peron speak in public, by now all the people were supporting him after he had spoken to the crowd and the people were yelling "Peron for president". This would be thanks to Eva and to the way she had

The Argentine Dirty War was a deadly tumultuous war that struck the country sort of by surprise forcing many to abandon their homeland. It all started with Isabel Peron becoming the first female president of Argentina after her husband was forced out due to illness where he received around the clock care. Although there were many Peronist supporters in favor of her rule, there was a growing insurgency to overthrow her corrupt regime. “Her regime inherited problems of inflation,

In 1946, he was elected president of Argentina. What made Peron so special, and how did he effect Latin America? Peron did something that had not been practiced on the continent of South America at that time. He went a “third way”. The way he governed the people of Argentina was neither communist, nor capitalism; it was called fascism, which he later developed into Peronism.

In the mid 20th century, Colombian politics were dominated by the Liberal and Conservative parties with fierce supporters that carried out the ideological and social differences into violence. Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a popular leader of the liberal party in Colombia launched social, economic, and political modernising reforms in the 1930’s. Gaitan was in the process of converting Colombia into a left-wing country when he was assassinated right before an upcoming presidential election. Gaitan was the favorite to represent the Liberal Party and was going to implement a more Liberal system in Colombia. The reaction to this assassination produced an uncontrollable clash between

Juan Domingo Perón is known as the greatest Argentinean politician of all time. However, he is also one of he most controversial. His tactics and alliances are often criticized as are the changes and developments he brought about in Argentina. The one thing that can be concluded by all is that this man led a very complex and important life.

Allende was a socialist governor that went to visit the concentration camp operated by Pinochet where most of the Chilean communist were held. Years later in 1970, Allende was elected president and soon promoted Pinochet to commander of the city Santiago Garrison. A few years later, Allende believed Pinochet has proven himself as a trustworthy, valuable person by helping Allende with his Economic policies. Allende soon promoted Pinochet to Commander-in-Chief of all Chilean armed forces on August 23, 1973.