During his first Presidency, Juan Domingo Perón had been invited to join a European tour but was not advised to participate, by his closest officials, since Francisco Franco, Spanish president at the time, was directly Linked to his recent alliances during the Second World War with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Thus, without occupying any official public office and in the role of First Lady of Argentina, the chosen one to carry on that mission was María Eva Duarte, who among On June 6 and August 23, 1947 he made “The Rainbow Tour” by different countries of Europe. That trip included, besides Spain, to Italy, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Monaco and the Vaticano.Su step by Spain was the most remembered by different facts. In principle, Franco was the one who was in charge of the official invitation in order to get Argentina’s support in the food crisis he was experiencing because of the U.S. trade blockade in the post-war period. In this context, the official visit was considered by the United States as a gesture of support for the Francoist dictatorship, which earned Argentina to be classified as a nation that sought to provoke an alteration of world peace after the second war. Eva Perón was greeted by Franco and his wife, María del Carmen Polo, who “suffered” the visit of the first lady. Evita toured the cities and the Spanish neighborhoods, hailed by the multitude, where he met the precarious conditions in which the workers of the European country worked. Later, Evita would report: “Franco’s wife did not like workers, and every time he could brand them red because they had participated in the Civil War. I held on a couple of times until I couldn’t get any more. ”
“I told her that her husband was not a ruler by the votes of the people, but by imposing a victory. The fat girl didn’t like anything. ”
A historical anecdote takes place when she is invited to tour the Escorial, one of the most emblematic royal buildings of the Spanish Crown, and Evita transmits to Franco, ironically: “Why not take advantage of this and make a colony or an orphanage?”. In Italy, there is a hearing with Pope Pius XII, who asks Argentina to receive Ante Pavelic, former head of Nazi Croatia, who would be in Buenos Aires one more year avoiding the extradition of Yugoslavia. Throughout its European itinerary , there were not only masses that hailed it but also escraches and claims for the suspicions of the links they had made to the leaders of Nazism who had lost the war. Eva Duarte’s journey was hinged on her life. On his return, his Democratic commitment was manifested through the energetic impulse to the women’s vote law. And his social commitment was evident in the creation of the Eva Perón Foundation, focused on supporting children and the elderly. At the age of 28, Evita began to forge the myth that made her one of the most remembered women in Argentina’s history. In this note:
