Don't Cry For Me is my all time tear-jerker. Beyond the song is a fascination with Argentina and Juan and Eva Peron that goes back to my childhood. Probably a time when I started reading the front pages of the daily newspaper rather than the comics. South America was the daily news for years. Cuba, Argentina, Central America, Banana Republic. Like a powder keg ready to explode. Vice President Nixon attacked by a mob in Venezuela.
Years later, when I was in the Air Force and had the fortune to fly through much of Central and South America, I made a stop at a military installation in Venezuela and was gifted with lunch and a courtesy tour of the installation and air field. Parked on the tarmac, under guard, was Juan Peron's escape airplane that had been parked there for 10 years.
