The history of Argentina in the second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the charismatic figures of Juan Perón and his wife Evita. Both within Argentina and in the outside world, it has come to be accepted that the populist revolution which swept through Argentina in the 1940s and profoundly transformed the political, economic and social conditions in the country was spearheaded by and Perón and Evita with little help from anyone else. Nothing, however, could be further from the tru