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title: '"Perón cumple, Evita dignifica": the CGT tower, Buenos Aires, 1953'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peron-cumple-evita-dignifica-cgt-tower-1953/
description: Half-tone press photograph of the head office of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) at Azopardo 802, Buenos Aires, with a crowd gathered at street…
section: Collection
---

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[!["Perón cumple, Evita dignifica": the CGT tower, Buenos Aires, 1953](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/peron-cumple-evita-dignifica-cgt-tower-1953.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/peron-cumple-evita-dignifica-cgt-tower-1953.jpg)

# "Perón cumple, Evita dignifica": the CGT tower, Buenos Aires, 1953

Half-tone press photograph of the head office of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) at Azopardo 802, Buenos Aires, with a crowd gathered at street level and the letters CGT and the slogan 'Perón cumple, Evita dignifica' (Perón delivers, Evita dignifies) lettered on the tower. The tell: the two verbs are claims that cannot be checked against a metric, and the leader and his late wife are named as the only actors in them.

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CGT
PERON CUMPLE
EVITA DIGNIFICA
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
CGT
PERON DELIVERS
EVITA DIGNIFIES
```

Tower lettering read from a coarse half-tone: the letters CGT and the first line are clear, the second line is partly legible and matches the slogan recorded on the Commons file page. A second sign on the tower's right-hand face is [illegible]. Accents on the O of PERON and the lower line are not discernible at this resolution.

[← 利便 / 阻險 (Convenience / Hardship), U.S. two-panel poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/convenience-and-hardship-two-panel-usia-poster-1953/) [Invest a "Truth Dollar" in Radio Free Europe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/truth-dollar-1954/)

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