The Corpse is Back

With the help of the Catholic Church, the military had been keeping Evita's embalmed body hidden in a cemetery in Italy; as a gesture of goodwill, Lanusse now returns it to Peron in Madrid. Lanusse passes a law establishing that only those who were residing in the country before August are eligible to be candidates in the upcoming elections and challenges Peron during a meeting of the top ranks of the military: "I don't think he has the guts to come back." Peron returns to Argentina in November, acclaimed by mass demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people. Since the deadline has passed and he is ineligible to be a candidate, he designates his personal representative, Hector J. Campora, to run for the presidency and returns to Madrid. The campaign's central buzz word is "Campora to the government, Peron to power," and the slogan "FAR and the Montoneros are our companions" is chanted at every Peronist rally, which infuriates the military.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior