Eva Peron's Lobotomy May Have Prevented a Civil War

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(Newser) – The Yale neurosurgeon who four years ago claimed former first lady of Argentina, Eva Peron, had a lobotomy in 1952 to ease her pain from cervical cancer is revising his theory. In a new paper in Neurosurgical Focus, Daniel Nijensohn says the woman who inspired the musical Evita didn't just undergo a lobotomy to numb her emotional responses. He claims her husband, Argentine President Juan Peron, forced her to have the procedure as it "offered the perfect approach to 'calm' Evita and prevent a civil war, while also attempting to dull her response to cancer pain," per the BBC. Nijensohn notes Eva Peron was in control of Argentina's social policies at the time, but not everyone agreed with her direction. In the months before her death, she began attacking her opponents as "imbeciles" and "enemies of the people," and called for citizens to "fight the oligarchy"—something her cool and calculating husband would have considered dangerous, reports Discovery News.
Eva Peron s Lobotomy May Have Prevented a Civil War

I missed the first go round of Eva having a Lobotomy.