The mysterious life of Isabel Peron in Madrid

The first woman president of Argentina, and widow of General Peron, hardly leaves his villa on the outskirts of the capital, "He is at the stage where he wants to let her live, nothing else"

"It is hard to walk. Out only to visit their doctors. Shies away from social life. Phobic politics. " So is the life of Isabel Peron , 85, in a residential area on the outskirts of Madrid . The correspondent of the newspaper "La Nacion" in Spain has followed in the footsteps of who was the first woman president of Argentina (and one of the first in the world) to rebuild his mysterious every day in our country .

"Locked in a room full of pictures of her with her ​​husband, General Peron , spends hours writing by hand in a notebook that does not show anyone. They say they are his thoughts , "reveals the journalist Martin Rodriguez Yebra. " He wears a monastic life, his writings, his doctors . Is at the stage where he wants to let her live, nothing else , "explains Alfredo García Serrano, a Spanish friend who regularly visits a house of 300 square meters which bought after selling the mansion Puerta de Hierro shared with Peron .

Maria Estela Martinez, popularly known as Isabel, was the third wife of Argentine president Juan Domingo Peron and held the presidency of the South American country between 1974 and 1976 , when he was deposed by a military coup . After five years detained by the putschists, in 1981 he settled in Madrid and left the political activity. In 2007 he faced an extradition trial for two cases on crimes against humanity committed during the years he ruled. The Spanish Supreme Court ruled in favor of it.

Despite this legal victory, since it remains isolated from the world . He stopped attending the meetings beneficial Rake New Future , organized every year by the Infanta Dona Pilar. "During the extradition process suffered a domestic accident. He rolled down the stairs, fractured arm and had major injuries in the hip . She was hospitalized. He spent weeks in a wheelchair. Never regained his usual mobility , "says" The Nation ". Live away from the noise, in a residential area overlooking the mountains in Villanueva de la Cañada, 30 kilometers from Madrid. Passes unnoticed among neighbors . "We know that lives there and know their employees, but little else. She did not never see , "says one of them.