Perhaps the week's most significant Argentine developmentmore important in the long run than the abortive revolt was the disclosure, on the day of the uprising, of something that had been a guarded secret: Eva Perón is gravely ill.
For more than a year rumors circulated that Evita suffered from anemia, but the terrific pace of her public life belied the reports. A fortnight ago doctors announced that she was in bed with influenza. She was so ill on the day of the revolt that she was given a blood transfusion and not told of the uprising until it was...
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