Thursday, 26 July 2012

The 20-year odyssey of Evita's body

25 July 2012 Last updated at 19:24 ET


By Linda Pressly BBC Radio 4


Three years after Eva Peron's death 60 years ago, her embalmed corpse disappeared, removed by the Argentinian military in the wake of a coup which deposed her husband, President Juan Peron. It then went on a global odyssey for nearly two decades.
Tall, silvery-haired and precise, Domingo Tellechea has a worldwide reputation for the restoration of art, antiquities - and human remains.
In 1974 he was the expert chosen to make the body of Eva Peron presentable for public display.
These were violent times in Argentina - government death squads targeted

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