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Did Evita die as the result of sinister brain surgery? One neuroscientist believes so, as David Robson discovers.

The gruesome, untold story of Eva Peron’s lobotomy 10 July 2015 Share Save Add as preferred on Google David Robson Features correspondent Getty Images Eva Peron in the 1940s, years before cancer would strike (Credit: Getty Images) Did Evita die as the result of sinister brain surgery? One neuroscientist believes so, as David Robson discovers. A few weeks before she died, Eva Peron rode next to her husband for his second inauguration as President of Argentina. Her cervical cancer, it is said, had rendered her so weak, that she was standing inside a kind of cage made of plaster and wire to suppo

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