evita (the documentary) script - act i
it was here, at la union, two hundred miles west of buenos aires, that juan duarte spent six months of every year away from home.during these long months, duarte grew close to one of his employees: juana ibarguren. although never legally married, juana bore duarte five children. the youngest was born on may 7, 1919, with the help of midwife juana guaiquil, a native american from the mapuche nation, former owners of these lands before the arrival of the white settlers from buenos aires....