As Evita’s body weakens and collapses, it becomes a metaphor for a country also coming apart. Her illness, death, and the later displacement and preservation of her body foreshadow Argentina’s cycles of authoritarianism, violence, political instability, and the economic collapse of 2001. In Ciudad Evita, the female body becomes both intimate and national territory—a body claimed by political power, collective memory, and competing versions of history.