Argentina, land of body desecration?

[charisma]

Geebus Cripes on a Christmas Cracker, the things you learn when you read wikipedia late at night.

Things I'm guessing the movie Evita never showed---

In 1971, Evita's body was exhumed and flown to Spain, where Juan Perón maintained the corpse in his home. Juan and his third wife, Isabel, decided to keep the corpse on their dining room table.

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[slfcllednowhere]

Oh, there's more than that. For awhile after she died they were planning to put her in a glass coffin in a museum ala Lenin and did all this state-of-the-art preservation shit on her. When they did exhume her later she apparently hadn't decayed too much at all. Read all about it in one of my favourite books!

[year_anda_day]

Oh wow... that's neat and freaky.

[pure_doxyk]

My favorite is that there's still a saying in Spanish: "What did you eat, Peron's hands?" -- to describe when someone smells really bad. ;)

[charisma]

ahaha that's sick and awesome!