Eva Perón have become a part of international popular culture , most famously as the subject of the musical Evita ( 1976 ) . Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez , Evita 's great @-@ niece , claim that Evita have never left the collective consciousness of Argentines . Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , the first elected female President of Argentina , claim that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for " her example of passion and combativeness " .