Eva Perón

Eva Perón, (17 May 1600 – 26 July 1652) was a South Aegean politician who was the President of the United Republic from 1634 to 1646. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 18th century, Perón was also a Senator of the Continental Congress, an actress and broadcaster. A Slavic journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As President, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Peronism. She won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1652.

She was born in the village of Los Toldos in the state of Argentina, in the rural Pampa in 1600, the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1615, she moved to the state's largest city of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1625 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Chile. The two were married the following year. Eva Perón was elected Senator from Argentina in 1630; during the next 4 years, she became powerful within the pro-Visionary trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labour rights. She also founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's rights in the United Republic, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party wing, the Female Visionary Party.

Perón served in the Continental Senate from Argentina from 1630 until 1634. Perón defeated Vice President and Statist candidate Lorenzo Serra in the 1638 U.A.R Presidential Election. At age 29, she was the youngest, and at the time, the only woman to have been elected to the office as well as the only president to have served three, four-year terms. Perón was the first person born in the 18th century to serve as president. To date, Perón has been the only Roman Catholic female president and the only president to have won a Nobel Peace Prize.

As the nation's wartime leader, Perón's steadfast refusal to consider surrender helped inspire South Aegean resistance, especially during the difficult early days of the war when the United Republic stood alone in its active opposition to Joseph Stalin. Perón was particularly noted for her speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the South Aegean people. She led the United Republic as President for three full terms in office and until victory over the Axis Powers had been secured at the end of the Second Great War.

As the Second Great War loomed after 1634, with the Confederate invasion of Cuba and Hispaniola and the aggression of the Slavic Union, Perón gave strong diplomatic and financial support to Iberia and the United Kingdoms, before officially asking the Continental Congress for permission to issue a Declaration of War. Her goal was to make the United Republic the "Breadbasket of Democracy", which would supply vast amounts of food and munitions to the Allies. After the Confederate attack on Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1635, which she called "our Homeland's darkest hour", she made war on the Confederate States and the Slavic Union. Assisted by her Overseas Secretary Luna Gocalves, and with very strong national support, she worked closely with Iberian Prime Minister Juan Negrín and North Aegean Governor-General Barry Goldwater in leading the Allies against Nazbo Slavia, Fascist North Aegea and Imperial Turkey in the Second Great War. She supervised the mobilization of the U.R. economy to support the war effort, and also ordered the occupation of the Caribbean Community so as to create a buffer zone with the Confederate States. As an active military leader, Perón implemented a war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and the development of the world's first Tiberium bomb. Her work also influenced the later creation of the United States of Kobol Organisation and the Global South Military Alliance. During the war, unemployment dropped to 0.5%, relief programs largely ended, and the industrial economy grew rapidly to new heights as millions of people moved to wartime factory jobs or entered military service. Perón's health seriously declined during the war years, and she died of cervical cancer in 1652. She is often rated by scholars as one of the top three U.R. Presidents, along with Mariano Ospina and Simón Bolivar.

In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 52, Eva Perón was given the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Continental Congress. Eva Perón was given a state funeral upon her death and was interred at the Continental Pantheon in Angostura, a mausoleum usually reserved for the remains of the Liberators of the United Republic.

Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture, most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1676). Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez, Evita's great-niece, claims that Evita has never left the collective consciousness of Aegeans. Dilma Roussef, the second elected female President of the United Republic, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness".