Perón, Juan

1. An Argentine political leader of the twentieth century. Perón, an intense nationalist, was dictator of Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s and again, briefly, in the 1970s. His wife, Eva Perón, became the most powerful woman in Argentina before her early death.

Example Sentences

Especially painful to Ms Fernández must be the desanctifying of Eva “Evita” Perón, Juan’s popular wife, who died young.

From Economist