Alphanista Hall Of Fame: Eva Perón

When I look at subjects for the Alphanista Hall of Fame I’m looking for people who didn’t come up all neat and tidy.

I look for people who surprise, whose background doesn’t always match up to their success story, and are able to catapult themselves to a new level.  To go to a new level, you don’t need necessarily need more time, just the right place.

Eva Peron.   She’s the former First Lady of Argentina.   You may remember her from the movie Evita, where Madonna played her memorable character or from the song in the play Evita, called “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”.  She was born out of wedlock back in the days which was a major hellified no-no.   She was born an outcast which makes her story even more beautiful, but she destroyed her birth certificate to move on her from the past.  She had a career as a actress and singer, struggling off and on with finances until that one night at the cocktail party!

There she met Juan Peron who later became the President of Argentina.  He  introduced Eva to his inner circle of political associates and advisors.  She married him in a year.  Here’s what Wikipedia says:

Over the course of the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the Pro-Peronist trade unions, essentially for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women’s suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation’s first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

I really believe that the right people and nurturing can bring out dormant forces in you by awakening interests you never knew you had, what I mean is–help you to fulfill your real destiny in life.   Some of us are lucky to find those people.

She was arrested (what famous alphanista hasn’t!) several times, ran for Vice President and died of cancer eventually at 33, still married to her adoring husband.  There’s lots of other stuff in between, but I nominate her for the Alphanista Hall of Fame based on her ability to go against the grain and make history in her own, unsuspecting way.  Or was she just there because of who her hubby was?

Yay or nay?

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