Argentine national Cerimedo sent to pre-trial detention in Bolivia for attempted femicide
Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
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- An Argentine national, Fernando Cerimedo, has been placed in pre-trial detention in Bolivia for 180 days.
- He is being investigated for attempted femicide against his ex-partner, who survived an armed attack.
- Cerimedo's defense claims the case is a political maneuver, while authorities acknowledge his past collaboration with the current president.
A Bolivian court has ordered the pre-trial detention of Argentine national Fernando Cerimedo for 180 days in a Santa Cruz jail. Cerimedo is under investigation for the attempted femicide of his ex-partner, Nadia Beller, who was shot multiple times in an armed attack on Monday. The court found probable cause and identified five legal risks that necessitated his detention.
The court ordered the pre-trial detention of Cerimedo for 180 days for having found him probably responsible and the concurrence of five procedural risks.
Initially, the victim's defense and the prosecution requested Cerimedo be held in the maximum-security Chonchocoro prison. However, his defense successfully argued for his placement in the maximum-security wing of Palmasola prison in Santa Cruz. Cerimedo was arrested at Santa Cruz's main airport on Tuesday, shortly after the attack on Beller.
The prosecution has charged Cerimedo with "attempted femicide." His defense team has described the case as a "political show" aimed at destabilizing President Rodrigo Paz's government, citing Beller's past association with the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party of former President Evo Morales. This connection has drawn attention to Cerimedo's relationship with President Paz.
The case is a political show aimed at destabilizing the government of Rodrigo Paz.
Presidential spokesperson José Luis Gálvez stated that Cerimedo was a "close collaborator" of Paz during the 2025 general election campaign and continued to assist with "specific communication matters" afterward, though not as part of the state structure. Cerimedo also played a role in Argentine President Javier Milei's 2023 presidential campaign and was linked to an investigation in Brazil concerning an alleged coup attempt. He also founded the news portal La Derecha Diario in 2021. The Bolivian prosecutor's office is conducting a separate investigation into Cerimedo for alleged illicit enrichment.
Cerimedo was a close collaborator of Paz during the campaign for the general elections of 2025 and subsequently continued to collaborate on some concrete communication issues.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.
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