Editing Juan Perón (section)

===[[Exile]] ===
The ''Libertadora'' went to extreme lengths to destroy Perón and his legacy. Not only did they attempt to kill the exiled Perón with a car bomb (twice), they also executed hundreds of suspected Peronist sympathizers, renamed or banned all Peronist organizations, [[book burning|burned books]] and portraits of Perón and Evita, and made it illegal to even mention Perón's name.

Evita's embalmed body was removed by the military junta from its resting place (the CGT headquarters), and the corpse was urinated on, mutilated and [[Necrophilia|sexually abused]]; it would later be taken to Milan, Italy, and buried in secret under a fake name for almost 15 years. They also exaggerated Perón's crimes and sought to portray him as a degenerate monster, although they also legitimately exposed some dark aspects of Perón, like, for example, his [[pedophilia|sexual relationship with a thirteen-year-old girl]].

Juan Perón would spend the next 18 years in exile as guest of some of the most infamous tyrants in Ibero-American history: [[Alfredo Stroessner]] in Paraguay, [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] in Nicaragua, [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]] in Venezuela, [[Rafael Trujillo]] in the Dominican Republic, and [[Francisco Franco]] in Spain. The only democratic (although heavily militarized and US-controlled) country he lived in was Panama, where he met his third wife, Argentine dancer María Estela Martínez, later known as Isabel Perón.

Meanwhile, the Peronists in Argentina would start a years-long resistance against the military dictatorships to allow Perón to come back from exile, which often included [[terrorism]], guerrilla warfare, and political assassinations. Some neo-fascist, anti-semitic, Peronist terrorist groups like the [[Tacuara Nationalist Movement]] or that of [[Rodolfo Galimberti]] would later be absorbed by the [[Montoneros]], the radical left-wing arm of the Peronist movement. Their most famous action was the 1970 [[kidnapping]] and execution of former dictator [[Pedro Eugenio Aramburu]], in retaliation for the 1956 massacre of 31 Peronists in a garbage dump near the town of José León Suárez.

Perón supported direct action. He held secret meetings in Spain with Montonero leaders and even hinted a leftward turn by expressing admiration for Marxist revolutionary leaders like [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]], and [[Mao Zedong]].

Following a failed attempt to return to his country (his plane was stopped in Brazil and then sent back to Spain), Perón sent his wife Isabel to Argentina as his "personal delegate" to meet with Peronist leaders, in order to stop a growing "neo-Peronist" movement within the syndicalists, known as "Peronism without Perón". There, Isabel was introduced to the infamous [[José López Rega]], a far-right former police officer and bodyguard of Perón in the 1950s, known as ''El Brujo'' (The Warlock) because he was also a self-practising astrologist. López Rega would exercise such [[Grigori Rasputin|Rasputin]]-like authority over the weak Isabel that, after winning her trust, he moved to the Peróns' home in Spain to work as private secretary, valet, butler, nurse and bodyguard to Juan Perón; he would even give Perón prostate massages after the old dictator was diagnosed with prostate cancer. López Rega also told Isabel that, using the now-recovered mummified body of Evita, he was able to channel the spirit of Perón's dead wife Evita to guide Isabel and give her self-confidence.

López Rega's influence over the Peróns would be far more sinister than it seemed. Using his new political contacts, he would create a far-right paramilitary terrorist organization responsible for various [[crimes against humanity]], known as the Triple A ([[Argentine Anticommunist Alliance]]), with the purpose of purging the Peronist movement of its leftist elements.