Karina Milei, the voice that whispers in the ear of the president of Argentina

 

The president's older sister was an entrepreneur, tarot reader and pastry chef. Now she is the most influential woman in the Government of a country in crisis

Karina Milei (Buenos Aires, 50 years old) has been the general secretary of the Argentine Presidency for a week. His position, created by General Juan Domingo Perón in 1948 and maintained during two dictatorships, countless government crises and temporary presidencies while the country emerged from them, will be to assist the president, Javier Milei, in the design of policies, in the elaboration of speeches and in protocol ceremonies. The essential task that the new presidential secretary will have will be the one she had throughout her life: to support, encourage and advise her older brother in private.

Karina was always there. When Javier Milei guarded the goal of the soccer teams he played for during his childhood, his sister watched him from the stands. When he received beatings and insults from his parents, he heard them from the other side of the room. When she sang Rolling Stones songs in clubs where she danced and took off her clothes, she was the one who picked it up from the spectators. Karina was behind the scenes while her brother rose to fame on television channels where he ranted against the Argentine political class, she was a supporting actress in the play in which her brother explained the sorrows of the national economy in the role of a psychologist, and he was the authoritative voice that epically narrated his childhood in the documentaries that prepared his foray into politics.

Karina Milei waited for her brother at the stages of each rally of her presidential campaign, she presented him as president-elect on the night of November 19, in which a country that speculated for months about his influence finally heard his voice, and received on stage as the new Argentine president last Sunday. Along with the king of Spain, the president of Ukraine and some Latin American leaders, he was the last person to hug the eighth elected president of democratic Argentina when he refused to speak in Congress and gave his first speech as president before a packed square in Buenos Aires.