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  2. Jul 25, 2012 · By Linda Pressly. BBC Radio 4. Three years after Eva Peron's death 60 years ago, her embalmed corpse disappeared, removed by the Argentinian military in the wake of a coup that deposed her...

  3. This time, the officials buried Evita's body for good -- 26 years after her death -- in the Duarte family tomb in the Reloceta cemetery of Buenos Aires. The tomb itself was built by a company that specialized in bank vaults and was constructed to resist any burglary attempts.

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    Immediately after Evita’s death, Eva’s husband Juan Peron paid physician Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm Eva’s body. Ara cosmetically restored her cancer-ridden form and replaced her bodily fluids with glycerine to preserve her organs and tissues. The whole process took two to three years. Meanwhile, Peron began construction on a monument to Evita. It...

    Eva’s body left the new regime in Argentina with an interesting problem. They couldn’t destroy it–that might cause the masses to turn against them. They couldn’t bury it, either–any place that Eva Peron was buried would be a potential lightning rod for Peronist agitators. Over the next few years, the Eva Peron corpse was shuffled from one ignominio...

    No one knows exactly who tipped off Juan Peron as to Evita’s whereabouts. What is known is that in 1971, Eva’s body was exhumed from the cemetery in Milan and transferred to Juan’s home in Spain. At this point, Juan Peron was 75 years old and married to his third wife, Isabel. Juan and Isabel kept Eva’s perfectly preserved body on the dining room t...

    This odd domestic arrangement ended in 1973 when Juan Peron returned from his exile in Spain to Argentina and was elected president for a third time. He left Eva’s body behind. But his triumph was short-lived. He died in 1974. Isabel had Eva’s body returned to Argentina and displayed her for a short time beside Juan, although the two were not burie...

  4. Jun 22, 2021 · As reported by BBC, Evita Perón's body was likely secured in the offices of Military Intelligence until 1957, when it was moved to a cemetery in Milan, Italy, and buried under the name Maria Maggi. Although some officials knew the location of Evita's body, her supporters and her husband were unsure of its specific location for nearly 20 years.

  5. Feb 16, 2023 · Sadly, Eva passed away from cancer in 1952 at the young age of 33. Eva Peron's cancer diagnosis was kept from her. Keystone/Getty Images. Eva Peron started having health problems when she was 30 years old. According to The New York Times, the first lady of Argentina fainted during a public appearance and had to undergo an appendectomy.

  6. Aug 22, 2022 · Like its subject, it has dark tones: the fate of the corpse of Eva Duarte de Peron, a politician and the wife of Juan Domingo Peron. The three-time president of Argentina (1946-1952, 1952-1955...