Platform. A possible story | Horacio Vasquez-Rial

Perhaps there is no more prominent and discussed figure in Latin America than Juan Domingo Peron. Even today, he remains the object of close scrutiny from diametrically opposed positions.

Someone considers him a dictator, a great leader, the "first worker" of Argentina; a husband who supported the ambitions of his strong wife; a Latin American prophet; a progressive benefactor who created a modern socially just society in Argentina, or, on the contrary, a traitor who destroyed a prosperous nation, inciting contradictions and unreasonable aspirations of his supporters.

Horacio Vázquez-Rial carefully examines the formation of the three-time President of Argentina and Leader of the Nation, dispels the myths surrounding Peron's personal life, declassifies unpublished documents, analyzes the hitherto silenced foreign investment in Argentina, maintaining objectivity and impartiality in his step-by-step documentation of the events of the time . The author focuses on the figure of Peron and his rise from the illegitimate son of an Indian woman to the President of the country, not on his famous wife Evita, his officially unrecognized possible daughter or on the secret black rituals of the sinister López Rega and his third wife Isabel.

Outside of Argentina, Perón is still overshadowed by his second wife, Evita, and remains something of an enigma to the rest of the world. However, without understanding the biography of this complex and unusual man, his charisma, political influence and controversial nature, it is impossible to understand the culture, history, politics and mentality of Argentines.