'He was ordered to make the body vanish': The gruesome abduction of Eva Perón's corpse
Argentina's legendary first lady died in July 1952. Six decades later, the BBC revisited the extraordinary story of what happened to her body – and the strange 16-year journey it undertook across continents. Within hours of Eva Perón’s death on 26 July 1952, Dr Pedro Ara began his delicate task. The distinguished Spanish anatomist was commissioned to embalm the Argentine first lady using advanced preservation methods similar to those employed on Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union. Evita,
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