Juanita Larrauri

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][lower-alpha 1] 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]

In this Argentine name, the surname is Larrauri and the marital name is Abramí.
Juana Larrauri
National Senator
In office
25 April 1952 (1952-April-25) – 16 September 1955 (1955-September-16)
ConstituencyEntre Ríos
In office
25 May 1973 (1973-May-25) – 24 March 1976 (1976-March-24)
ConstituencyEntre Ríos
Personal details
Born12 March 1910
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died21 February 1990(1990-02-21) (aged 79)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyJusticialist Party
Spouse(s)Francisco Rotundo
OccupationSinger, politician

Personal life

She 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

In 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, Radio Prieto and 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

Larrauri 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.[lower-alpha 1] 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 Martínez de Perón in a coup d'état.[8]

Discography
  • Canto para mi pueblo, 1972.[2]

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. In addition to Larrauri, the other women elected to serve in the Senate from 1952 were: Maria Rosa Calvino de Gómez, Elvira Rodriguez Leonardi de Rosales, Elena di Girolamo, Ilda Leonor Pineda de Molins and Hilda Nelida Castañeira de Vaccaro.

References
  1. Pinsón, Néstor. "Juanita Larrauri". Todo Tango. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  2. "Juanita Larrauri, la primera mujer senadora argentina / La Opinión Popular". Laopinionpopular.com.ar. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  3. "Juanita Larrauri: la fervorosa". Página/12. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. Barry, Carolina. "Mujeres Peronistas: Centinelas de la austeridad" (PDF). Historia Política. p. 12.
  5. "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".
  6. Perón, Juan D. (14 August 1958). "Carta a Juanita Larrauri". Perón Vence al Tiempo. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  7. Galasso, Norberto (2005). Perón. II. Buenos Aires: Colihue. p. 1088. ISBN 9505814003.
  8. "El charter histórico". Clarín. 12 November 1997. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
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