May 7, Eva Maria Duarte was the seventh and youngest child of Juan Duarte, a wealthy landowner from nearby Chivilcoy and Jauan Ibaurguren, a local woman of Basque and Indian descent. Eva and her siblings, like many children born in Rural Argentina, was the illegitamate.
A year after her birth, her father left his family in Los Toldos and returned to his family in Chivilcoy, leaving the family destitute. Period: May 7, to Jul 26, Villaness, were just some of the names that Eva Peron was called druing her thirty three years on this earth. During that time Eva straddled the lines that seperate the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless.
She brought Argentina to the attention of the world, helped get women the vote, and became one of the most powerful women in the history of Latin America.
Jan 8, After hearing that her husband had died in a car crash in Chivilcoy, Juana Ibaurguren and her seven children flagrantly disobeyed the standards of society and insisted on attending his funeral.
Once they had made the journey from Los Toldos to Chivilcoy, the family was almost turned away by Duarte's grieving widow. Undoubtedly shocked to encounter her husband's second family. The widow's brother eventually convinced the wife to allow the family to briefly pray over the body. Jan 1, Though we do not have an exact date, the Duarte Family moved from the village of Los Toldos to the small city of Junin.
