Peron's remains moved to new mausoleum

Thousands of jostling, weeping admirers of Juan Domingo Peron tossed carnations and cheered the late political strongman today as his coffin was moved through clogged streets of Buenos Aires for reburial at a new mausoleum south-west of the Argentine capital.

Peron's remains moved to new mausoleum

Thousands of jostling, weeping admirers of Juan Domingo Peron tossed carnations and cheered the late political strongman today as his coffin was moved through clogged streets of Buenos Aires for reburial at a new mausoleum south-west of the Argentine capital.

Peron, who dominated Argentine politics like no other 20th-century leader with the glamorous Evita at his side, was being buried for a third time since his death in 1974.

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