Eva Duarte de Peron is one of the most mysterious and controversial figures of the last century. The tone amidst the information produced about her while she was alive and after her death can be divided between sensational praises or passionate criticism. Much of the information was written from a political standpoint, propaganda created by the Peronists or the anti-Peronists. The lack of dispassionate perspectives on Eva was only made worse by the accounts written about her shortly after her death. The high demand for the "truth" of such a murky icon after she died led to the influx of information, many of which Scholars have deemed questionable for the lack of reliable sources and the prevalence of hear say. Time has brought some perspective on her humanity, and the controversy of her myth is a direct result of her fusion to the Peronist movement and Argentina.
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