I found both of the readings genuinely interesting and particularly enjoyed viewing the same phenomenon from opposite perspectives.

I was particularly drawn to the personal account of Evita Peron, which was emotionally charged and highly enigmatic. Her wildly dramatic eulogy to her former husband was so moving it reminded me of religious writings or a heroic epic or something (probably because she viewed him as a demigod.) These sort of grand proclamations about the inherit greatness and incorruptibility of any mortal (especially a  political figure) generally come off as very artificial or feigned; but Evita’s passions (however misplaced they may be) were  moving and  surprisingly highly convincing . It is not hard to see that she is manifesting (or reinforcing) a cult of personality but the fervor with which she describes her own adoration of his character feels highly personal and so all the more believable.   That being said, she (consciously?) contradicts herself throughout all of her monologues in simultaneously glorifying and mistrusting and condemning her “people.” It seems to me that the  “people”  she refers to are Peron and those who follow him fanatically. I believe source of both her love and “venom of hatred” (which overtake her writing at many points) to be her fanaticism toward Peron, which she describes instead as a deep suffering for her “people” (by which I assume she means Argentinians.) Her boundless adoration for Peron shows the direct result of his artificial charisma being praised as a direct reflection or representation of his “people” while her closeness to the subject prove just how manipulative and calculated Peron’s public and private personas are.