A day like today but 106 years ago I was born Eva Perón. And with her, there was also a new and brave way to love the people. Evita was much more than an exceptional woman: It was a voice that broke the silence, an extended hand that did not ask for permission, a face that multiplied in millions.
His struggle for social justice was not an abstract ideait was a concrete practice of dignity: hospitals, rights, households, work, female vote. Evita did not think about history as a scenario of lonely heroes, but as a shared destination. That is why he said that “where there is a need, a right is born.” Because he understood that peoples are not saved from one, they are saved from everyone.
That same spirit is the one that John except embodies in The Eternalutathe great Argentine cartoon created by Héctor Oesterheld. Not as an individual superhero, but as the symbol of a collective that resists, which is organized, that defends the common against adversity. The hero of El Eternalauta is the people in motion. It is also the avoidance that lives in every woman who struggles, in every kid who dreams with a better future, in Each neighborhood that is organized against adjustment and cruelty of the destruction of rights.
Today, that some want to convince us that there is no common future, that it is only worth saving alone, Evita tells us again that true strength is in the community. In love of others. Collective. In solidarity. In social justice as a horizon.
106 years after his birth, Evita is not just memory. It is a compass.
