Foundation Eva Peron
"Everything done will be justified by my foundation."
-EVITA, "The Actress Hasn't Learned the Lines."
Eva, shortly after returning from her Rainbow Tour in Europe, instituted her most well-known and beloved program for the poor and deprived--Foundation Eva Peron.� Eva's foundation was truly a light in the darkness for the desolate Argentine people.� Foundation Eva Peron was a social welfare program that provided money, food, and essential needs to the people of Argentina.� Although, it was a charitable program on the surface it was one that was started after the peasants and workers felt that the Peron's had abandoned them after reaching their supreme stature.� Eva sought to disprove this notion, hence Foundation Eva Peron.� As depicted in the musical and motion picuture EVITA, the money necassary to fund such a lofty charity was collected literally from a portion of the daily wages of the working class in disregard to their willingness to contribute.�
Foundation Eva Peron, which Sra. Peron personally chaired, reached out a helping hand to those that needed it the most.� The foundation indeed reached far and wide and provided the farthest regions of Argentina with electrical power and sanitary water supplies.� It also went a step farther and provided families with housing and educational opportunities.�
Foundation Eva Peron was the ultimate attempt to maintain absolute power and it� succeeded for the duration of Sra. Peron's life.� One must realize that the foundation not only secured the Peron's position in Argentine politics and its elite but did in the end help some of those in dire need.� Therefore, two differing agendas were served in the process.�
After the untimely death of Sra. Peron, the foundation continued on with Clne. Peron in charge of the foundation and its operation.� But with Sra. Peron's leadership and magical touch gone the foundation lost its grandeur and went on the decline and eventually failed.� This, in part, led to the later coup d'etat that overthrew Clne. Peron and forced him into political exile in Spain, because the foundation's high profile provided Peron with a certain degree of comfort and stability among the lower classes of Argentina; thus, making him immune to political rivals and coup.�