Comparison of two political heros

Evita Peron, born Eva Maria Duarte, in contrast to the heights to which she rose, came from very humble beginnings. Eva was born in 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina to Juana Ibarguren. Eva’s father, Juan Duarte had a fifteen year long affair with Juana, although he was already married. The couple was stable though Eva and her four siblings, Blanca, Elisa, Juan, and Erminda were all legally acknowledged by their father. Even though the children were acknowledged, when the mother took them to their father’s funeral, in 1920, they were not allowed to enter. Eva’s family lived in very poor economic circumstances and in order to survive, her mother and sisters hired themselves out has cooks to wealthy families. In this life for struggling for money, Eva got her first glimpse of the differences between the rich and poor in Argentina and the ideal of social inequality would be one she would carry through to the rest of her life. Eva attended school in the town of Junin, where she and her family ended up settling down. Eva had very difficult early years, she wasn’t a very promising student, receiving average grades, and rememb

Although Eva Peron, was a very popular woman with the lower class, the middle and upper classes opposed her greatly. They did not like that she was from the lower class. She once said, “Peron has a double personality and I need to have one also: I am Eva Peron, the wife of the president, whose work is simple and agreeable… and I am also Evita Peron, the wife of the leader of the people who have deposited in him all their faith, hope and love. A few days of the year I represent Eva Peron, most of the time, however, I am Evita.” Her relationship with unions intensified, creating a foundation for her social work. She helped the union workers get better wages, and cared for the needy. She saw herself as a bridge between classes, but she had become much more than that. She established an office where she would see people and try to help with their needs. She gave out subsidies for clinics for the poor and distributed food, clothes and household goods. When she was told of the unhealthy living conditions of the poor, she visited them and took charge of a plan to provide the residents with healthcare, and build new houses. She aimed for ‘direct social help’ for jobs, medicine, housing and education. Evita’s next monumental change took place in 1951 when she helped women win the right to vote. Evita brought intense feminism to Argentina, and through her efforts, many women entered, and were successful in, politics; in 1952, 23 women took the office of deputy, and six the office of senator. Evita also created thousands of schools, including nurseries, sports programs and children’s hospitals. Her work for children came from the belief that, “The country which forgets its children renounces its future.”

Both Eva Peron and Ernesto Guevara are hero’s for the people. Both knew the meaning of life for the poor and were compassionate towards them. Eva is called the spiritual mother and leader of the Argentinean people, she was a special woman and reached a high political position but never forgot she came from the poor. Che had faith in people. While Castro wants to be the godfather, the patron of the Cuban people, Che lived-- and died-- to be the servant of the people. He was a rare bird: a pragmatic idealist. He fought for a revolution where people find not merely the economic heaven-on-earth that Marxism promised, but the self-fulfillment, empowerment and humanity that struggling for control of one's destiny brings. I think of the men in the American civil rights marches who would wear the placard "I Am A Man." In the struggle for liberation, people find some sense of self in the act itself, whether successful or not. From the AA meeting to the overthrow of a dictatorship, and everything in between, struggling for control of our lives makes us more of a person. In the unfinished history of this planet, of our peoples, Che Guevara was a beauty. Like Camus' Sisyphus, struggling vainly with the rock, showing that he is greater than the fate dealt to him, Che moved through his life seeking, and I suspect finding, his humanity in the struggle of liberating his fellow man. Eva knew in her heart that helping the poor was her vocation, and instead of just talking about things, she went out and did them. She always gave herself, even as she laid on her deathbed. Evita was deeply loved by her people and her charms are irresistible.

Che's final revolutionary adventure was in Bolivia: he grossly misjudged the revolutionary potential of that country with disastrous consequences. The attempt ended in his being captured by a Bolivian army unit and shot a day later. Because of his wild, romantic appearance, his dashing style, his intransigence in refusing to kowtow to any kind of establishment however communist, his contempt for mere reformism, and his dedication to violent, flamboyant action, Che became a legend and an idol for the revolutionary- and even the merely discontented- youth of the later 1960s and early 70's a focus

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