This weeks reading talk about the renunciamento, which highlights the power that Eva Perón had as an ambitious politician. It also demonstrates how the masses and the people have control; it shows the full strength of the crowd, in a good way and also its capacity to be a powerful and disruptive political force. The documents in this chapter illustrate the various different renderings of the renunciamento, each one with a different point of view and each with its own truth claims. The first document, Foster Hailey, “Peronist will head Argentine Ticket”, is a newspaper article from the New York Times reporting the event. The following document, The Peronist Version of the Speech, comes from the Peronist Party of Buenos Aires’ account of the renunciamento. The document was the proposal of her speech, what calls my attention about this specific text is that the dialogue with the crowd (which was unexpected, of course) is absent, and also the fact that the speech in the text is not the same speech she ended of giving. Therefore making the proffered of her speech completely different from what actually happened. This makes me think of how much of the speech we hear everyday in the radio, TV or that we see in the newspaper etc, are actually the words of the speechwriters which prepared the texts or improvised by the speakers when delivering it, and lastly its a reminder to not alway rely on written texts from archives when reconstructing a past that did no take place through the medium of written word. While on the other hand, the third document, The Renunciamento as compiled from Newsreel and Archival Footage, gives a better approximation of what was actually said the speech that August 22. It’s a transcript prepared by the Argentine scholar Monica Amare, who assembled this document (dialogue) from the extracts of newsreel she found. They are partial glimpse of the moment, fragments more or else, of the event that took place. Unlike the previous document, this excerpt includes the dialogue between the crowd and Evita, it also gives us a better sense of the ambient and what was actually like to be there (with the whole introduction in which it describes Eva entering crying). And finally the last document, Eva Peron’s Final Response Broadcast over the Airwaves (at 8:30 pm on August 31, 1951), is a more accurate depict of what was said. In her speech she announces that she would not run. Something that left me curious is whether Eva stuck to the script (unlike her speech 9 days prior) since in this situation, there wasn’t an immense crowd intimidating and demanding answers. I would think that she did so, since unlike the third document, this speech, in my opinion contains a lot less emotion and its more controlled, since the speech given at Avenida Nueve de Julio at the Cabildo Abierto, began as a stage-managed moment, but one can quickly notice how it turns into an improvisation, a dialogue between Eva and the descamisados.