Juana Larrauri de Abramí, also known as Juanita Larrauri (12 March 1910 – 21 February 1990) was a tango singer and was among a group of the first women elected to the Argentine Senate.[1][2][a] She was elected twice as a senator and in both cases lost her seat as a result of right-wing military coups; she was elected in 1951 and lost her seat in 1955, then was elected again in 1973 and lost her seat again in 1976.[2]
Juana Larrauri | |
|---|---|
| National Senator | |
| In office 25 April 1952 – 16 September 1955 | |
| Constituency | Entre Ríos |
| In office 25 May 1973 – 24 March 1976 | |
| Constituency | Entre Ríos |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 March 1910 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 21 February 1990 (aged 79) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Spouse | Francisco Rotundo |
| Occupation | Singer, politician |
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Personal life
editShe was born in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires on 12 March 1910.[1][2] In 1949 she married pianist and orchestral director Francisco Rotundo.[1] She died in Buenos Aires on 21 February 1990 at the age of 79.[2]
Singing career
editIn 1931 Larrauri began her career as a tango singer on LR3 Radio Nacional (later called Radio Belgrano).[1] In 1936 she made her first record for Odeón.[1] Other radio stations on which she appeared included LS3 Radio Mayo, LS5 Radio Rivadavia, LS2 Radio Prieto and LR2 Radio Argentina.[1]
With Peronism's rise to power in the 40s she postponed her singing career, but she was still featured in 1952 as the singer in "Evita Capitana" – a feminine hymn to Peronsim – by Rodolfo Sciamarella, and in 1972 she recorded an album titled Canto para mi pueblo.[1] She wrote the tango "La piba de mano a mano" (one of the tracks on this album) together with Tití Rossi.[1]
Apart from her recordings and a few short tours in Argentina and neighboring countries, the bulk of her singing career was on radio.[1]
Political life
editLarrauri joined a group of women that, led by Eva Perón, pushed the passing of the law giving women the right to vote, approved in 1947.[3]
Larrauri joined the National Committee of Eva Perón's Women's Peronist Party (Partido Peronista Femenino, or PPF) as the representative of Entre Ríos Province.[2] Other members were Águeda Barro, Dora Gaeta, María Rosa Calviño, Amparo Pérez, and Delia Parodi.[4]
In 1951 Larrauri was elected by the provincial legislature of Entre Ríos Province as one of its National Senators, joining a group of the first women to be elected to the Senate.[a] That same year Larrauri sang "Evita Capitana", which became the anthem of the Women's Peronist Party.[2] In 1952 she became the president of the Commission for the Eva Perón Monument.[2]
She was deposed along with all the other elected representatives by a right-wing military coup (the Revolución Libertadora) on 16 September 1955, and was imprisoned by the resulting military dictatorship of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.[5]
During the ban of Peronism (1955–1972) Larrauri became a major leader in the women's branch of the movement known as the "Peronist Resistance".[6] When the ban on the Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista) was lifted in 1972, she was a member of its Consejo Superior, representing the women's branch of the Peronist movement, which, at its core, took a position in opposition to Jorge Daniel Paladino.[7] In 1972 she was part of the delegation which accompanied Juan Perón on his return to Argentina.[8]
In 1973 she was re-elected as a national senator, and on 24 March 1976 was again deposed along with the other elected representatives when a right-wing military dictatorship under Jorge Rafael Videla overthrew Isabel Perón in a coup d'état.[8]
Discography
edit- Canto para mi pueblo, 1972.[2]
See also
editNotes and references
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i Pinsón, Néstor. "Juanita Larrauri". Todo Tango. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Juanita Larrauri, la primera mujer senadora argentina / La Opinión Popular". Laopinionpopular.com.ar. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Juanita Larrauri: la fervorosa". Página/12. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- ^ Barry, Carolina. "Mujeres Peronistas: Centinelas de la austeridad" (PDF). Historia Política. p. 12.
- ^ "Causa Perón, Juan Domingo y otros s/ traición y asociación ilícita". UPAU. 17 May 1956. Retrieved 10 May 2011.. El 17 April 1956 se dispuso la prisión preventiva de Juana Larrauri y otros líderes peronistas, en la causa "Juan Domingo y otros s/ traición y asociación ilícita".
- ^ Perón, Juan D. (14 August 1958). "Carta a Juanita Larrauri". Perón Vence al Tiempo. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ Galasso, Norberto (2005). Perón. Vol. II. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 1088. ISBN 9505814003.
- ^ a b "El charter histórico". Clarín. 12 November 1997. Retrieved 10 May 2011.