The Big Wake-Up

The odyssey of María Eva Duarte de Perón-the Argentine first lady made famous in the play and the movie Evita-was as remarkable in death as it was in life. A few years after she succumbed to cervical cancer, her specially preserved body was taken by the military dictatorship that succeeded her deposed husband Juan. Hidden for sixteen years in Italy in a crypt under a false name, she was eventually exhumed and returned to Buenos Aires to be buried in an underground tomb said to be secure eno...