Under the traditional celebration for Labor Day, Eva Duarte and Juan Domingo Perón were present at a massive event in Plaza de Mayo. Over there, Despite being very weak due to the illness she was suffering from, from the Casa Rosada balcony, the first lady gave her last speech to the people.
“Once again we are gathered here, the workers and the women of the people; again we are the shirtless in this historic square of October 17, 1945”, were the first words with which avoid He addressed the people for the last time. Over there, politics expressed his support and defense of Perón.
In a speech where avoid had to be held by the waist by Perón, due to her extremely weakened state due to the cancer that afflicted her, The First Lady celebrated his reunion with the people after months of absence and asked to defend the government in the face of the next presidential elections.
There, in a fragment of her speech, she mentioned: “Compañeras, compañeros, I am in the fight again, I am with you again, like yesterday, like today and like tomorrow. I am with you to be a rainbow of love between the people and Perón; I am with you to be that bridge of love and happiness that I have always tried to be between you and the leader of the workers”.
Thus, in a speech of 12 minutes and 30 seconds, dressed as a tailor and with her emblematic bun, Eva Peron He addressed his “descamisados” in public for the last time. Less than two months later, he would lose his life on July 26, 1952, unaware that his illness was due to terminal cancer.
Eva’s speech
Despite the pain and morphine injections she had to receive to give her speech, Eva’s conviction and firmness were present in each of her words. Before a crowded square, she launched: “I ask God not to allow those foolish people to raise their hands against Perón, because cool that day! That day, my general, I will go out with the working people, I will go out with the women of the people, I will go out with the shirtless of the Homeland, so as not to leave standing any brick that is not Peronist.”
In the same way, he remarked: “We fight together with Perón for a happy humanity within justice, within the dignity of that people, because in that lies Perón’s greatness.” “There is no greatness of the Homeland based on the pain of the people, but based on the happiness of the working people,” he said.
To end his speech, he warned the people about the threats surrounding Perón and expressed his clear support for the general: “Be alert. The enemy lurks. He never forgives that an Argentine, that a good man, General Perón, is working for the well-being of his people and for the greatness of the Homeland”.
With a clear message to “the traitors of the Homeland”, he concluded: “The traitors from within, who sell themselves for four coins, are also on the lookout to strike at any moment. But we are the people, and I know that when the people are alert, we are invincible because we are the country itself.”
