Who is Juan Peron from Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron and what is their importance?

Juan Domingo Peron was the 29th and 41st President of Argentina, in office from both 1946 to 1952 and 1973-1974. He also served as Vice-President from 1944 to 1945 and was the second president of the Eva Peron Foundation. Peron lived from 1895 to 1974. He was also an Argentine military general who was elected President of Argentina in open elections and was overthrown by a military coup in 1955. Peron was deeply popular along with Evita when he was president and they are still icons of the Peronist party. Peronists tend to cite Peron's struggle to get rid of poverty and increase the place of laborers in Argentine society. However, his detractors though he was a demagogue, fascist and bungler.