Editing Eva Perón (section)

===Early childhood===
Eva Perón's 1951 biography, ''[[La Razón de mi Vida]]'',<ref>Published in Argentina in 1952; subsequently published in English-speaking countries under the titles ''My Mission in Life'' and ''Evita by Evita''</ref> contains no dates or references to childhood occurrences, and does not list the location of her birth or her name at birth.<ref name="Razon">Perón (1952).</ref> According to Junín's civil registry, a [[birth certificate]] shows that one ''María Eva Duarte'' was born on May 7, 1919. Her baptismal certificate lists the date of birth as May 7, 1919 under the name ''Eva María Ibarguren''.<ref name="Fraser 2-3">{{harvp|Fraser|Navarro|1996|pp=2–3}}.</ref><ref>Act 495, from the Church "Capellanía Vicaria de Nuestra Señora del Pilar" registry of Baptisms for the year 1919, baptism took place on 21 November 1919</ref> It is thought that in 1945 the adult Eva Perón created a forgery of her birth certificate for her marriage.<ref name="Borroni, Otelo 1970">{{harvp|Borroni|Vacca|1970}}.</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2015}}

Eva Perón spent her childhood in [[Junín, Buenos Aires|Junín]], [[Buenos Aires province]]. Her father, Juan Duarte Manechena Etchegoyen  (1872—1926),<ref>Prutsch, U.: Eva Perón. Leben und Sterben einer Legende. C.H. Beck, München 2015</ref> was descended from [[French Basque Country|French Basque]] immigrants. Her mother, Juana Ibarguren Nuñez (1894—1971), was descended from [[Basques|Spanish Basque]] immigrants.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Astorga |first1 = Antonio |title = Evita convenció a Franco para conmutar una pena de muerte |url = http://www.abc.es/20110406/archivo/abci-cloppet-201104060326.html |access-date = 25 May 2016 |newspaper = [[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]] |date = 28 April 2011 |language = es }}</ref> Juan Duarte, a wealthy rancher from nearby [[Chivilcoy]], already had a wife Adela D'Uhart and family there. At that time in rural Argentina, it was not uncommon for a wealthy man to have several families.<ref name="Fraser 3">{{harvp|Fraser|Navarro|1996|p=3}}.</ref>

When Perón was a year old, Duarte returned permanently to his legal family, leaving Juana Ibarguren and her children in abject poverty. They were forced to move to the poorest area of Junín. Los Toldos was a village in the dusty region of Las Pampas, with a reputation as a desolate place of poverty. To support herself and her children, Ibarguren sewed clothes for neighbors. The family was [[social stigma|stigmatized]] by the abandonment of the father and by the [[Legitimacy (family law)|illegitimate]] status of the children under Argentine law, and was consequently somewhat isolated.<ref>{{Cite news |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/24/books/two-faces-of-evita.html |title = Two Faces of Evita |newspaper=The New York Times |last = Jennings |first = Kate |date = 24 November 1996 |access-date = 16 August 2018}}</ref> A desire to expunge this part of her life might have been a motivation for Perón to arrange the destruction of her original birth certificate in 1945.<ref name="Borroni, Otelo 1970"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}}<ref name="Fraser 4">{{harvp|Fraser|Navarro|1996|p=4}}.</ref>

When Duarte suddenly died, and Ibarguren and their children sought to attend his funeral, there was conflict. Although Ibarguren and the children were permitted to enter and pay their respects, they were promptly directed out of the church. Duarte's widow did not want her late husband's mistress and children at the funeral. As she was the legitimate wife, her orders were respected.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Barnes |first1 = John |title = Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron |publisher = Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2007 |isbn = 978-0802196521 |edition = Reprint |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LTG47AxK8lMC&q=juan+duarte+mistress+not+allowed+in+funeral&pg=PT25 |access-date = 6 October 2018 |date = 1 December 2007 }}</ref>