Isabel Martínez de Perón

María Estela Martínez Cartas, born 4 February 1931, became the third wife of Argentine president Juan Perón and served as both vice president and first lady during his third term from 1973 to 1974. When he died in office in 1974, she assumed the presidency and led for nearly two years, her politics aligned with right-wing Peronism and what observers called corporate neo-fascism. The military seized control in 1976, placing her under house arrest for five years before exiling her to Spain in 1981. She attended Raúl Alfonsín's inauguration after democracy returned in 1983 and remained nominal head of the Justicialist Party until 1985, but never reclaimed political influence. In 2007 an Argentine judge ordered her arrest over a 1976 forced disappearance tied to decrees she signed; Spain arrested her but refused extradition.