President Juan Perón secretly funded Austrian physicist Ronald Richter’s attempt to create controlled nuclear fusion on an ...

Resting in peace has never been easy for Juan and Eva Perón, Argentine icons whose bodies after death were separated from each other and have endured everything from frequent international airplane ...

Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new ...

In contributor Stephen Kinzer’s July 10 Ideas piece, “Yes, there is such a thing as a formerly developed country,” he blames former president Juan Perón for Argentina’s economic decline, saying ...

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Buenos Aires’ great independent newspaper La Prensa was dead last week, its life snuffed out by Juan Perón. By act of the rubber-stamp Argentine Congress, the world-famed paper had been expropriated ...

Juan Peron is a role in Evita, a musical that opened Broadway in 2012. Eva Peron used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Argentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady ...

Juan and Eva Perón forged powerful emotional bonds with the Argentine people when Juan served as president from 1946 until 1955. Having worked in radio, Eva understood the power of melodrama in ...

THE WORKERS' Left Front (FIT) won a surprise 3.3 percent of the vote in Argentina's August primary elections, but that didn't do much to change a political landscape that continues to be dominated by ...

Trying to place President Trump in a political category that offers insight into what he’ll mean for our democracy — is Trump a fascist, totalitarian, authoritarian or sort-of populist? — has led both ...