“Argentine journalism is in mourning. He died Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazu“, reported Radio Miter today past noon confirming the death of one of its figures for more than half a century. His leap to the forefront of journalism took place at the beginning of the 1970s together with Antonio Carrizo: She was the host of the news program “La Primera de la Noche” on Channel 7, until José María Villone, Press Secretary of Isabel Peron he fired her applying the “Law of Expendability”.
The winner of thirteen awards Martin Fierrothe Horon’s Legion the French, the Order of Merit of France, Italy and Poland, and the Grand Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the International Women’s Media Foundation, always had a tense relationship with Peronism, which claimed, for example, that he had interviewed Jorge Rafael Videla.
but the own Ruiz Guinazu told last year, his early fascination with the figure of avoid, being a teenager. “There were only a few days left until the end of classes and, while waiting for the newsletters, in my beloved school in Callao and Juncal, everything was about expectations. The dismissal time was also lively. It was so that afternoon, when someone shouted “Evita is on the corner!”, the disbandment was general. Leaving our belongings at the College, we ran to the corner of Arenales in which we observed several official cars that did not use to frequent that block”, told last year the anecdote of that meeting with the wife of Juan Domingo Peron.
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“So many years later, perhaps what I am telling is excessive. Even trams 31 and 10 had stopped. But the figure of Evita had broken into the history of our country with such force that in the Plaza or in front of Avenida 9 de Julio , and later in Peru and Avenida de Mayo where the offices of the Foundation that bore his name were, his presence drew a crowd of men and women who wanted to see her without the distance of a printed photo,” he warned in that story.
“That afternoon there were many of us who left school to see her, even though our families were not politically related to Perón and Evita. We knew that our story would capture the attention and questions of all the after-dinner conversations. Evita was returning from a trip during which she had visited the Vatican and a Francoist Spain located in that Europe still suffering from the Second World War. That afternoon then Eva Duarte was no longer the young actress seeking a theater or film career but an international woman with a strong political imprint whom Christian Dior had taught to dress elegantly”, continued Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú.
“I particularly remember that bun of blonde braids that she wore to the end and that, on that spring afternoon, harmonized with a set of light blue shantung accompanied by white thread gloves and a little hat. While a bold colleague asked her for an autograph, Evita was watching us and asked if we lived nearby and what school we attended. He even warned the custodian to let us stay in front of the School of Nursing but she did not seem particularly interested in our hasty questions,” she added in a note for Clarín.
“Evita did not give us an open smile but neither an attitude of animosity. I remember her, on the other hand, very serious, insisting on that of patriotic duty. Finally she, surrounded by custody, climbed into one of the black Packards with white-trimmed tires and we headed back to school. ‘Y? How is Evita?’, we were asked by those who had come to look for us like every afternoon. And the answer, almost unanimous, was ‘Evita is beautiful”, The journalist concluded about that impact due to the figure of the first lady who would become a symbol a few years later.
by RN
