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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Luis Montaño and Mabel Andrade were announced as interim replacements for Mariaca and Zeballos, respectively. However, Oviedo subsequently refused to accept Montaño’s appointment, saying the legislature must choose the new attorney general. orinocotribune.com/bolivia-pros...

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Bolivia: Prosecutor’s Office Condemns ‘Kidnapping’ of Attorney General Investigating Cerimedo (+Evo Morales)

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Bolivia’s Prosecutor’s Office condemned the “kidnapping” of Attorney General Roger Mariaca and Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor Alberto Zeballos following their arrest a...

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: Mariaca repudiated the US accusations and defended the independence of Bolivia’s Prosecutor’s Office, insisting that the Cerimedo investigation would continue despite pressure.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: The arrests followed Washington’s September 28 announcement of visa restrictions against Bolivian officials, including both prosecutors.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: On Thursday, Government Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo presented the operation as a fight against “narcoterrorism,” alleging that Mariaca headed a criminal protection network. Mariaca has rejected allegations that he facilitated drug trafficking.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: Beller’s lawyer, Jerjes Justiniano, said the arrests were carried out without a judicial order.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: Officials from the Prosecutor’s Office condemned violations of institutional independence and human rights. Police subsequently intervened in prosecution offices in several cities and searched Mariaca’s residence in Santa Cruz.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Orinoco Tribune: Bolivia’s Prosecutor’s Office condemned the “kidnapping” of Attorney General Roger Mariaca and Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor Alberto Zeballos following their arrest at Viru Viru International Airport on Wednesday night, September 30.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: By the time of the attack, she said she believed that she and Cerimedo were past their arguments. “I miss you,” she wrote in one of the last messages gathered by police. “Me too,” he replied. She said she thought they would have a life together.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: Not far away from the courthouse, in a middle-class section of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Beller moved into her sister’s house. On a recent Monday morning, two police cars were parked outside. Inside, Beller struggled to reconcile all that has happened.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: At a court appearance on Aug. 21, Cerimedo denied any involvement in the attack. He spoke of his children and family, and wept into his hands.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: Prosecutors also said they’re investigating his alleged ties to drug trafficking.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: After reviewing the contents on his phone and other electronic devices, and finding tens of thousands of dollars at his apartment, prosecutors brought additional charges against Cerimedo of illicit enrichment and domestic violence.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

“Don’t tell anyone anything,” it said. “But she’s sold us out … Nadia. Either we eliminate her already or we’re screwed. Do you know anyone who can help with this job?” It’s unclear if the message was sent. wapo.st/4i28ZPm

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He pushed MAGA in Latin America. Then came an affair, and an attack.

Fernando Cerimedo, who steered right-wing campaigns across Latin America, is accused of directing two hit men to kill his pregnant paramour.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: Police, however, have gathered what appears to be damaging evidence. Days before the shooting, Cerimedo asked a local political contact for $50,000. And on his phone, they found a message in his notes folder.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: Margarita Arce Chilo, one of his lawyers, said Cerimedo was guilty of adultery, but nothing more. “This had been constructed with premeditation by Ms. Nadia and the left,” she said.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 14h

Washington Post: ‘I trusted everything’ Cerimedo’s lawyers called the entire case — from affair to shooting — an elaborate trap set by the left for Cerimedo and the Paz government.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: On Aug. 17, as Beller waited outside a luxury hotel to receive the intel, two individuals dressed as deliverymen approached. One pulled a gun and shot her three times.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: As the couple argued, Beller said she received a message from an anonymous tipster. The informant claimed to have dirt on a political rival. If she wanted the intel, she needed to go to a drop-off point. Cerimedo urged her to go. “Help me,” he said.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: He begged her to wait, to think of his children and their unborn child. “Can’t you wait a few days?” he said. “That’s all I ask.”

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

“What have you done nadia??????” Cerimedo wrote her. She said she was going to accuse him publicly of domestic abuse. “You beat me, and like an idiot I stayed quiet,” she wrote. “No more.” wapo.st/4i28ZPm

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He pushed MAGA in Latin America. Then came an affair, and an attack.

Fernando Cerimedo, who steered right-wing campaigns across Latin America, is accused of directing two hit men to kill his pregnant paramour.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: This summer, the couple discovered Beller was pregnant. She accused Cerimedo of abandoning her — then in August unilaterally broke the news of her pregnancy to Cerimedo’s wife.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: She photographed the bruises and threatened to out him, messages show, but ultimately did not.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: Then, in June, she said she found a condom in his bathroom at their La Paz apartment, and an argument turned violent. She said he strangled her.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: Beller said she began to mistrust Cerimedo in April, after finding amorous phone messages that he sent to his wife. Later, she said, he tried to hide from her that he’d gone to Buenos Aires, presumably to visit his family.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: The only hitch was his marriage. But he told Beller that it was over and that he wanted to marry her instead, according to Beller and WhatsApp messages collected by police. Efforts to reach Cerimedo’s wife weren’t successful. wapo.st/4i28ZPm

wapo.st

He pushed MAGA in Latin America. Then came an affair, and an attack.

Fernando Cerimedo, who steered right-wing campaigns across Latin America, is accused of directing two hit men to kill his pregnant paramour.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: A picture in his La Paz apartment, she said, showed him with Parscale, whom she said Cerimedo referred to as his “best friend.”

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: To Beller, Cerimedo seemed the epitome of success, she said. He had connections all over Latin America and the United States, and claimed to make between $800,000 and $1 million per month.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: “She started staying at my apartment in La Paz,” Cerimedo told police.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: The pair first spoke by telephone, Beller said, as Cerimedo sought her input regarding a legislative proposal important to Paz, the Bolivian president. A professional relationship between Beller and Cerimedo never matured, but a personal one blossomed.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: A Bolivian affair At the time of those remarks, Cerimedo was having an affair with Nadia Beller.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: In February, when Cerimedo accepted his award at Mar-a-Lago, he thanked Parscale “for always believing in me.” Parscale didn’t respond to requests for comment. In his remarks, Cerimedo also had someone else to thank. “My wife,” he said. “I love you.”

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: Last year, Cerimedo’s news outlet, the Daily Right, reported that Cerimedo would be the Latin American representative of Parscale’s two political technology platforms — Eyes Over and Campaign Nucleus — both of which featured in Trump’s 2024 campaign.

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Fernando Cerimedo will represent key firms in Trump's campaign in Latin America

These are Campaign Nucleus and Eyes Over, two essential technological platforms in Donald Trump's campaign

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: His closest MAGA connection was Brad Parscale.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: He also appeared in advertisements as a lecturer at the Dick Morris Academy, an online training tool for politicians and campaign workers.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: He said he worked with American political consultant and commentator Dick Morris to help coordinate Trump’s pivotal endorsement of Honduran President Nasry Asfura.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: He helped connect Tucker Carlson to Milei for an interview broadcast in September 2023. He partnered with Miami consultant Damian Merlo — a fixture in Trump circles — on the Milei campaign. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: Through his Buenos Aires political consultancy, Numen, Cerimedo became a conduit between Latin American and U.S. politics.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: In Bolivia, he championed President Rodrigo Paz — tutoring his daughter, Catalina, on his craft — and he crudely attacked the country’s former president Evo Morales, calling him a “narco-terrorist pedophile.”

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: He released a viral video that alleged the 2022 Brazilian presidential election had been rigged in favor of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In Argentina, he helped steward Javier Milei’s digital operations, unleashing what he said was an army of trolls and trashing his rivals.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

The conviction did little to slow his rise. In recent years, as politics in Latin America coarsened, giving rise to a new class of pugilistic political operatives, Cerimedo was suddenly everywhere. wapo.st/4i28ZPm

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He pushed MAGA in Latin America. Then came an affair, and an attack.

Fernando Cerimedo, who steered right-wing campaigns across Latin America, is accused of directing two hit men to kill his pregnant paramour.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 15h

Washington Post: Alconada Mon said Cerimedo worked as a taxi driver in the coastal Argentine city of Mar del Plata, where he was convicted in 2016 of fraud after selling the same apartment to two different families.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 16h

"He’s a pathological liar,” Hugo Alconada Mon, an investigative journalist with the Argentine newspaper La Nación, said he concluded.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 16h

Little, if any, of that has been proved. In statements to The Post, MIT and the University of Phoenix said they had no records of Cerimedo as a student. Harvard and the U.S. Navy public affairs office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 16h

In interviews with journalists and on his LinkedIn page, Cerimedo claimed to have studied at Harvard University and MIT, earned a PhD in marketing from the University of Phoenix, trained with the U.S. Navy SEALs and served for a time in the White House during the Obama administration.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 16h

Washington Post: A rapid rise to Mar-a-Lago Cerimedo’s history is a mix of embellishment and contradiction.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 16h

“It was Fernando,” Beller told The Post. “He wanted to kill me.”

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