The left-wing President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, confirmed this Thursday the end of his romantic relationship with the anthropologist Irina Karamanos. After several days of speculation, the president published a detailed message on his Instagram account in which he publicly announced that after almost five years together, they had decided to part ways “due to different visions of their intimate future.” At the end of last year, the social scientist resigned from the leadership of the socio-cultural coordination of La Moneda, a department dependent on the presidency of the Republic of Chile and traditionally staffed by the wives of presidents.
Boric (37 years old) and Karamanos (34) are members of the “Social Convergence” party of the Frente Amplio. “We share the complicity of a collective project that, together with so many colleagues, has led us to unexpected challenges that we have always faced with the best of us,” the Chilean president wrote in a message supported by his ex-partner. The publication said the breakup occurred a few weeks ago when Karamanos left the 432-meter-high house where they lived in the Yungay district, near the center of the capital. “But we have decided (we know better) that we will remain comrades forever,” the president added.
“Irina is an extraordinary woman, in all dimensions in which a human being can be understood. Of endless curiosity about the mysteries of life, because above all he wants to live it. She is generous like no other, whether she has little or a lot, she will always share, because her way of understanding relationships is based on deep empathy, which only makes sense if we understand each other as beings who have the same respect earn. She is intelligent, perceptive, has an overflowing imagination and is extremely committed to the tasks she sets herself. “I admire her endlessly,” wrote the left-wing president.
“I’m telling you we’re fine.”
“For those who bet on the possible suffering of others: I tell you that we are fine, that neither of us has another partner and everything has been discussed in detail, since we are two people who have lived the most intense years of our lives together “The president clarified, alluding to speculation about a possible new couple. Even Andrés Jouannet, a deputy from Amarillos, a party that defines itself as center-left, called on Vice President Carolina Tohá to report on the president’s security measures during his personal outings after a video circulated on social networks in which he is seen entering a person’s house without a security guard. “We know that speculation will be commonplace these days, and while we would have liked to witness this process in private, we both understand that it is better to tell this story ourselves, leaving those who like to invent or project. “ own stories into other stories. “They have nothing left but their echo,” Boric added.
Karamanos, a feminist and social scientist who studied anthropology and education at the University of Heidelberg, recently spoke in a TEDWomen talk in which she specifically addressed the first lady’s position. When he took office as the president’s partner on March 11, he said, his goal was “to bring about a change and eliminate a power that is the product of affection and not of democratic power.”
Shortly after her intervention at TEDWoman, an article in EL PAÍS reported on the plans of Karamanos, who made her departure from La Moneda official in December 2022 (the post of First Lady was unpaid). His search therefore focused on NGOs, institutes, foundations and international organizations as well as his own ventures, including the promotion of a tailor café. He has also accepted a position as Curriculum Studies Analyst for South America at an international organization and will be collaborating on work in 2024. In Praralelo you will be part of research teams at various public universities. His research focus will primarily be on migration and discrimination discourses among young people.
In addition, Irina Karamanos has plans to start a business. Recalling her work as a café manager in Germany, where she lived for seven years, she will open a tailor’s café in Santiago together with a fashion designer. The workshop will take place in a neighborhood in the eastern part of the capital, between Providencia and Ñuñoa in Santiago. And it would open at the end of 2023.