The Birth of Peron: A biological son, an adobe ranch and two cities that claim his birthplace

Roque Perez It is named after the Córdoba lawyer who died of yellow fever in 1871 while in charge of the People’s Health Committee. At the time of Juan Domingo Perón’s birth, it was a small village that was established as a town on September 21, 1884, and on June 24, 1913, thanks to the arrival of the railroad Achieve municipal autonomy.

It has become part of the folklore of the region. Tense tug-of-war with neighboring city Lobos, as both towns claim to be the birthplace of the former president. Official reports state that he was born in the house at 1380 Buenos Aires Street in Lobos.But the general’s biographer’s investigation of patients ultimately provided answers evidence It was in a room with a dirty floor, in a An adobe ranch on the outskirts of Roque Perez.

Peronist youth hang posters during the 1973 campaign for the Campora-Solano Lima program “Roque Pérez is the hometown of General Peron”. They knew that Casa Lobos, considered his birthplace, was built many years after the founder of Peronism was born. Moore’s boarding house was there, where the future president’s father once lived.

Peron was originally his biological son, but it was only recently recognized that. His grandfather, Tomás Liberato Perón, was a doctor, president of the National Health Council, and fought in the Paraguayan War. He died in 1889. His son Mario Tomás, from Buenos Aires, born in Corrientes and Libertad, gave up medical studies and came to Lobos at the age of 23, becoming a Justice of the Peace. His father recommended country air to treat pneumonia.there he met Juana Sosa ToledoA Creole who is half Tehuelche and Spanish, he works on a ranch in Salvador María, raising sheep and performing various tasks.

Mario lives with Juana in Lobos. The first Mario Avelino was born on November 30, 1891, at the same time they moved to Roque Pérez, the ranch they are buildingCirca 1893, has adobe and brick walls, gable roof, one window and two doors. In a photo from that year, Juana is pregnant and standing behind Mario Tomas.

If you plan to travel to Roque Pérez on October 8th to attend Peron’s birthday celebrations, you will arrive a day late.because To the natives of Rockpell, he was born on October 7, 1893rather than 1895 as has been believed.

The remoteness of civil registries means these creatures were late or never recorded. To get to Lobos you had to travel about 35 kilometers and, if possible, ford the Salado River, which at that time had no bridges. Biographers such as Enrique Pavón Pereyra and Hipólito Barreiro discovered that he was born in Roque Pérez on October 7, 1893 ) pasture.

His name was Juan Domingo, named after his two grandmothers. He wrote it as Sousa.

Her parents, Mario, 33, and Juana, 26, eventually married at noon on September 25, 1901, They recognized Mario Avellino and Juan Domingo as their children.

After getting married, my father went to Santa Cruz alone to try his luck. A year later, he sent his family aboard the ship “Santa Cruz.”In the South, the boy Juan Domingo will receive his The first gift: a 22-caliber rifle, He learned to hunt with it. The severe cold they had to endure during the winter led them to settle further north in the province of Chubut.

But Juan Domingo was sent to the city of Buenos Aires to study.He was in Ramos Mejia, at my grandfather’s house. Between 1904 and 1905, he attended the morning class at school at San Martin 548, District 1, together with his cousins ​​Julio and Maria Amelia Peron. His first teacher was Agustina Boggero and his second grade teacher was Asunción Deroqui de Banquero. Later, he continued his studies at the Nuestra Señora de la Merced Parish School, located at 1251 Cuyo Street. He spent the first three years of high school at the Polytechnic School, located at 2311 Cangallo Street, and later moved to Olivos. He went to Chubut to visit his parents during the holidays.

He is keen to study medicineBut since a classmate wanted to take the military academy exam, I convinced him. But the fact of being a biological son could be a barrier to rigorous admission to a military academy. Pavin Pereira reiterated that he was able to get in thanks to the efforts of the father of Julio Amodio, who later became a senator and who was a member of the House War Committee (the name Defense did not exist at that time) and also credited for the efforts of his grandmother, Dominga Dutey. On March 1, 1911, his military career began.

The Roqueperens found Peron’s origins natural, as it helped them compare him to Evita’s origins: They are all biological children and come from humble families.was born on a ranch and lived with the Gauchos.

The 48-square-meter pasture was left intact, still on a dirt street called Mitre, was converted by Perón and was inhabited until 1995. It is in front of the sanatorium, very close to it, with a piece of land of about a quarter of a block, Presbítero Francisco Massobrio and Sabaté, which was purchased by the former president and is still in his name.

According to relevant local authorities, originally The ranch occupies six lots.. In 2001, archaeologists from the National University of La Plata conducted excavations at the site and found various items: bullets, coins, bottles, axes, scissors, saws, and even a box and a wood stove. All displayed in the pasture.

In 1946, when Peron wrote his sworn statement in his own handwriting, he included among his assets “a piece of land in the town of Roque Pérez, province of Buenos Aires.”

In 1938, as a young lieutenant colonel, he arrived in Roque Pérez, turning his back on the main road and heading toward the back of town. In the middle of the field he went to a pasture. He stood at the door, pointed inside, and said to the Illeskas family inside: “I was born in that room”. He had just served as military attaché in Chile and was still a complete stranger to almost everyone, except some of the older residents who had long memories.