María Estela Martínez de Perón
| Isabel Martínez de Perón | |
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| 41st President of Argentina | |
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In office 1 July 1974 – 24 March 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Juan Perón |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Videla |
| 28th Vice President of Argentina | |
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In office 12 October 1973 – 1 July 1974 |
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| President | Juan Perón |
| Preceded by | Vicente Solano Lima |
| Succeeded by | Víctor Martínez (1983) |
| First Lady of Argentina | |
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In role 12 October 1973 – 1 July 1974 |
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| President | Juan Perón |
| Preceded by | Norma Beatriz López Rega |
| Succeeded by | Alicia Raquel Videla |
| Personal details | |
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María Estela Martínez Cartas 4 February 1931 La Rioja, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist |
| Spouse(s) | Juan Perón (m. 1961; d. 1974) |
| Residence | Spain |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born 4 February 1931), better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón (Spanish pronunciation: [isaˈβel marˈtines]) or Isabel Perón, is a former President of Argentina. She was the third wife of President Juan Perón. During her husband's third term as president from 1973 to 1974, Isabel served as both vice president and First Lady. Following her husband's death in office in 1974, Isabel served as president of Argentina from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976. She holds the distinction of being the first female president of any country in the world.
In 2007 an Argentine judge ordered her arrest over the forced disappearance of an activist in February 1976, on the grounds that the disappearance was authorized by her signing of decrees allowing Argentina's armed forces to take action against "subversives". She was arrested near her home in Spain on 12 January 2007. Spanish courts subsequently refused her extradition to Argentina.
María Estela Martínez Cartas was born in La Rioja, Argentina, into a lower-middle-class family, daughter of María Josefa Cartas Olguín and Carmelo Martínez. She dropped out of school after the fifth grade. In the early 1950s she became a nightclub dancer, adopting the name Isabel, the saint's name (the Spanish form of that of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal) that she had chosen as a confirmation name.
She met her future husband during his exile in Panama. Juan Perón, who was 35 years her senior, was attracted by her beauty and believed she could provide him with the female companionship he had been lacking since the death of his second wife Eva Perón (Evita) in 1952. Perón brought Isabel with him when he moved to Madrid, Spain, in 1960. Authorities in the strongly conservative Roman Catholic nation did not approve of Perón's cohabitation with a young woman to whom he was not married, so on 15 November 1961 the former president reluctantly married for a third time.
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