Word: isabelita
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...Maria ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 42, has obviously learned more steps than did her predecessor. Evita's hopes of becoming Vice President in 1951 were dashed by a determinedly male-chauvinist military. This time round, with an overwhelming election victory for both Peróns, no such opposition is anticipated. Barring the total collapse of order in Argentina, Isabelita will become her country's first female Vice President on inauguration...
Electing a woman Vice President in male-dominated Argentina was no easy task. Indeed, when the Justicialist convention nominated Perón and his third wife last August, many Argentines reacted with incredulity and anger. Isabelita broke down in tears when she accepted her party's vice-presidential nomination, but the weeping was a deceptive sign of weakness. In fact, she seems to be every bit as tough and ambitious as Perón himself...
...petite and well-preserved blonde, Isabelita was born to a middle-class family in the impoverished Argentine province of La Rioja. After leaving home in her early 20s, she joined a troupe of touring folk dancers. She met the exiled Perón in Panama City in 1956 while she was performing in a nightclub and married him five years later in Madrid...
...Isabelita soon became Perón's most effective voice in exile, carrying his commands to Justicialists throughout Argentina. In 1971, when it seemed that warring factions would destroy the movement, Perón, in the words of chess-conscious Argentines, "moved his queen." Isabelita was dispatched to Buenos Aires, where she reminded her countrymen that "Perón is the only Peronist presidential candidate...
...Isabelita made up for her lack of warmth with poise and words carefully calculated to soothe rather than rouse...