President Juan Domingo Peron and his third wife, then-Vice President Isabel Peron, wave to crowds in Buenos Aires on October 12, 1973 [File: AP Photo] Violent divisions between left and right.

Known affectionately as "Evita", Maria Eva Duarte de Peron became a legend due to her fight for women's rights and her premature death in 1952 aged just 33. The wife of former president Juan ...