Descamisados

The term Descamisados ( "shirtless" ) refers to the people of the Argentine population who were so poor that even their "last shirt was taken from them".

Eva Perón in particular , the wife of the Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón , coined this term and advocated the Descamisados in particular. After Perón was arrested by the military in 1945, she mobilized the Descamisados in uprisings that demanded his release. He was released a few days after his arrest. "Within a few years 5 million descamisados join his union movement". Ms. Perón called herself “the first shirtless in the country”.

Web links

"Descamisado" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica

Individual evidence

↑ Perón, Eva called Evita ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Rolf Seeler, Juan Garff: Argentina and the Falkland Islands . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7701-7655-7 , p. 40 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ South America's veto . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1947 ( online - 25 October 1947 ).

[1] Perón, Eva called Evita ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Rolf Seeler, Juan Garff: Argentina and the Falkland Islands . DuMont Reiseverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7701-7655-7 , p. 40 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[spiegel-41123339-3] South America's veto . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1947 ( online - 25 October 1947 ).