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...problems and intrigues become too intense, Isabelita Perón may exercise her constitutional privilege of stepping down. In that case, Senate President José Antonio Allende (a member of the Popular Christian Party and no kin to Chile's Salvador Allende) would become interim President of the republic until new elections were held. In the first days following Perón's funeral, Isabelita showed no signs of wanting to exercise her constitutional option. The idea of being Latin America's first Presidenta was obviously a powerful pull. Still undecided, however, was whether she would be astute enough to withstand the divisive...
...illness. It was she who, choking back tears, announced that he had died. And it was again she?dressed in black unadorned with jewelry?who symbolized Argentina's sorrow. The icy smile, the tightly pulled-back hair dyed dark blonde and the slightly strident voice of Maria Estela ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 43, last week dominated the thoughts of Argentines nearly as much as did the death of her husband Juan Per?...
Elected Argentine Vice President last September (at Perón's insistence), Isabelita constitutionally succeeded her husband as president, thus becoming the first woman chief of state in the history of Argentina and the Americas. Although her education never progressed beyond high school, she is not without political experience. During Perón's exile in Spain, she twice returned alone to Argentina to end squabbles among the Peronistas. She acted as Perón's intermediary with the endless stream of supporters who visited him in Spain, and even represented him in China, where she had talks with both Chairman...
This increasingly impressive public performance eventually stilled much of the early criticism of Isabelita, especially by old Peronistas, who resented her obvious attempt to imitate Eva Duarte, Perón's immensely popular second wife...
Like Evita, Isabelita wears her hair in a bun and has courted the trade unions...