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there is a fascinating thing about what are the applications of the global economy in an icon but also the people, and it is all blurred.

JD: Evita, even today is a very divided, very controversial figure. I don't think that there is a uniform image in Argentina about Evita. But there are certain facts, I think, about Evita, that nobody can deny. Evita was a powerful political force there. The fact is that Evita fought [[strikethrough]] was one through whose efforts [[/strikethrough]] for equal rights [[strikethrough]] would come [[/strikethrough]] to women [[strikethrough]] in Argentina. There's proof. It's fact. [[/strikethrough]] The fact is that she helped a lot of people. The fact that she was the one to promote, you know, Argentina, and the fact was she was an actress. She was the first major political figure in Latin America in the world. The installation that integrates this video is set up so that in the middle you have a television showing this. In the upper part is a realistic picture, a painting of Evita that was used in postcards with a light, and all around the room there are candles. So when people come into the room, they see Evita as a myth, and they have almost church-like feeling because the room is all dark and the only thing that you see is the history of Evita, like you were doing a history of the person you were going there to pray to, like a saint. So this is a crucial part of the installation.

Moderator: I think there are two lines in this video: one is the problem of who Evita is, but the other is the problem of what America thought about Peronism. They made a basic identification between Peronism and Fascism because that was the modern day idea and because the mass media of Peronism had established an association. And so therefore, they reduced Peronism to an export of Fascism, European Fascism. But Peronism was not Fascism because Fascism was a middle class event, and Peronism didn't get

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