María Cristina Verrier is a journalist and playwright, daughter of a former Supreme Court judge and partner of Dardo Cabo, who chose to stay aboard flight AR-648 during the Operativo Cóndor.
| Type | Character |
| Age | 27 in 1966 (alt. “26, 27”) |
| Spanish entry | María Cristina Verrier |
Description
She is “known to some, because she is a journalist”, above all through a circulating photograph of her; what it shows is not recorded.
Background
Her father “was a member [of the Supreme Court], no longer is”. She belongs to the Buenos Aires world of journalism and theater. “She was married, divorce did not exist, and she had had a child”, while dating the man who leads an aerial hijacking.
History
She visited the estancia several times with Cabo before he was jailed, called there “the new girlfriend”, implying an earlier one.
Her one named colleague is the journalist Laurita, both a bridge (“I want to be Laurita’s friend because I too am a journalist and a woman”) and a source of jealousy.
She takes part in the hijacking of flight AR-648, inside the plane, during the Operativo Cóndor. Offered release, she decides to stay with Dardo Cabo. Her motive (militancy, reporting or accompanying her partner) is not recorded.
Conflicting accounts
- María Estarzenboraín de Torres, adviser to Borges at the National Library, was filed under the same entity. She is a different person; whether a third party or a records error is undecided. The two are not merged.
Open questions
- Her physical appearance.
- Which plays she wrote and where she published.
- The names of husband, father and child; the child’s age and whereabouts during the operation.
- Her role inside the plane; where she lives and is from, and how she earns a living.