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Cursed Harvest
Plant disinformation and reap barbarism
On August 18, 2026, the scene seemed banal: outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, lawyer Nadia Beller, eight months pregnant, calmly consulted the messages on her cell phone. Normality, however, was torn apart in seconds. Two men disguised as food delivery men approached, still wearing helmets, and fired three shots at close range. Nadia fell, still alive, supported first by strangers passing by on the street and then by the Bolivian public health service. Against all odds, she and the baby survived. Already in the hospital, in recovery, she pointed out the probable mastermind of the crime: Fernando Cerimedo, her ex-boyfriend, unhappy with the end of the relationship. That same day, Cerimedo was detained when he tried to board a flight to Argentina.
Nadia’s accusation was not only about an intimate tragedy. Cerimedo had been circulating for years in the most flammable backstage of Latin American politics. He served as an external consultant and coordinator of digital strategy for Javier Milei’s 2023 presidential campaign in Argentina. Before that, in 2022, he had informally supported Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign for reelection in Brazil, a race won by Lula. In 2024, the Brazilian Federal Police indicted him in the investigation into the attempted coup d’état, although the Attorney General’s Office did not denounce…
