On Evita Peron

Of course there is Eloy Martinez's novel Santa Evita. I've been reading True Crimes--Rodolfo Walsh--the life and times of a radical intellectual by Michael McCaughan. Walsh was an Argentine journalist, true crime--sometimes short story fiction writer who was murdered by Argentine Naval officers in 1977 during the time of a military dictatorship. Walsh is very famous for one short story in particular--Esa Mujer--That Woman which is about Evita Peron--or her corpse which a previous military dictatorship had arranged a kidnapping of fearing it could be used as some kind of symbol to mass a counter revolution. Anyway it would seem that part of the team that kidnapped Evita's corpse included an army colonel Moori Koenig who just happened to be a necrophiliac and her embalmer--a Spaniard Pedro Ara who apparently also took advantage of the corpse. Ara and the two other officers Frascoli and Nunez Cremades apparently all going insane within a few years.

the corpse of Evita also plays a central role in Eloy Martinez's The Peron Novel which is a fabulous read.

if one ever gets to Buenos Aires, Museo Evita,, in the Palermo Barrio is an intriguing experince.

Bert--in McCaughan's book Walsh and Eloy Martinez meet up over lunch one day in Paris in 1970 where they discuss the disappearance and in a moment of insight both figure out the itinerary of where the body had been. The clues Eloy Martinez uses from Walsh's story--is the body being buried in a garden, upright and Moori Koenig's own travels along with a conversation that Eloy Martinez had with the secretary to the President of the World Jewish Congress who had once mentioned to him all the constructing and deconstructing of a building structure that was part of the Argentime embassy in Bonn during Koenig's time there.