It is February 2025. Esmeralda Miter wants to visit the grave of her father Bartolomé in the Recoleta cemetery and on the way she crosses the pantheon of Eva Perón, at the other ideological extreme. But the heir of the former director of La Nación years ago assumed she was a Peronist. He kneels before the remains of the mythical Evita, prays a rosary to her and then whispers to her: “You who did so much for the poor, please do something for me because I am so poor at this moment, I feel so poor in my soul.”
The Miter heiress is not financially poor, but she had just suffered the episode in which her own family tried to institutionalize her with the excuse of an alleged psychiatric condition to take advantage in the dispute over assets.
Now, nine months later, Esmeralda remembers the scene with Evita in her apartment on Copernico Street, very close to the cemetery, in a conversation with NOTICIAS: “I used to have quite critical thoughts about her and as I was thinking and studying more, there is something in which I did feel very represented after the kidnapping, that I thought I was not going to get over that anymore, and I am getting over it. I thought I had had so many terrible issues before, and this one about the attempted hospitalization was the most terrible. That’s why I prayed to her. Avoid…”
The one who speaks in this interview – in which for the first time she will delve into her contacts with the K world and with Cristina Kirchner – is a rare bird in the Miter clan. A Peronist Miter, who also cannot fail to mention Cristina even when the conversation takes place in other ways, such as those of the brand new film that has her as the leading actress, “Putas”, released these days. The way CFK sneaks into the middle of the talk is a sign of the incredible political metamorphosis of the family rebel.
Director Demian Alexander says: “I thought Esmeralda had to play the character and we called her just at a time when I had named her Cristina, but I was not aware of that, I don’t watch television. She thought we were calling her for that, and no.”
Esmeralda gestures for him to shut up, but it’s too late.
News: Sorry, why had I named you Cristina?
Esmeralda Miter: (Smiles). Well, if you want, I’ll tell you… It was in 2019, because I had posted a tweet that María Eugenia Vidal lived in this area, which they call “the island”, I met her several times at the pharmacy, then entering her building, and I asked myself how someone with a state salary could move to a neighborhood like this. And then Cristina, at the close of her campaign that year, told that and named me.
News: A few weeks ago, in September, you went to see her and took a photo with her in her house arrest. How did that happen?
Miter: Actually, I and Cristina have been in dialogue for quite some time. Only this is the first time one of our meetings has been made public…
News: How long have you had a dialogue?
Miter: Since 2020, after that campaign closing. The relationship began the year after that campaign.
News: How did you get there?
Mitre: It was for Deputy Eduardo Valdés, who seems to me to be a very serious person and is someone for whom I have a lot of affection. He wanted to make this union and we got together to talk, of course, about issues of power, about issues of the newspaper.
News: Where did they meet?
Mitre: It was precisely in the house that Deputy Valdés has, whom I respect very much and I want to say, I wish there were more people like him: cultured, prepared and honest. And the meeting was with my lawyers, Daniel Llermanos and Gabriel Len.
News: Was it to get to know each other or was it for something in particular?
Miter: Actually it was to get to know each other and talk about the whole situation that was happening with the newspaper.
News: So she was interested in what was happening in La Nación, in your fight with the Saguier family, the majority shareholders.
Miter: Yes, interested in the diary and in getting to know me too. And from there a relationship arose, let’s say. And, of course, I also have a good relationship with Vidal.
News: How many times did you see Cristina?
Miter: No, we saw each other three times, four times, but the first time we made it public was now.
