Cerimedo, a Milei adviser jailed in Bolivia for shooting his ex-partner, vowed to “blow up” Sheinbaum in Mexico’s next elections, says the victim, Nadia Beller.

This article by Redacción / SinEmbargo originally appeared in the August 21, 2026 edition of SinEmbargo, one of Mexico’s leading independent digital news outlets.

Mexico City, August 21 (SinEmbargo). Nadia Beller Delgado revealed that her ex-partner, Fernando Cerimedo, an adviser to Argentine President Javier Milei and a consultant for far-right movements in South America, told her that he intended to intervene in Mexico’s upcoming elections in order to “blow up” President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

“He told me that the President had referred to him, that she was a crazy woman, that she was delusional, things of that nature,” Beller Delgado recounted during an interview with television host Maca Carriedo.

According to her testimony, Cerimedo, who is currently imprisoned in Bolivia over the shooting attack against Beller, also expressed to her his rejection of the head of the federal Executive and told her in advance that he would seek to get involved in Mexico’s next electoral process, though he did not specify what strategy he would use or which candidacy he would try to favor.

“He told me just like that, that he was going to get into the next elections because he detests her, obviously […] he told me: ‘I’m going to blow her up in the elections,’” she added.

“I’m going to blow her up in the elections.”

Fernando Cerimedo, as recounted by Nadia Beller

Nadia Beller Delgado after the shooting attack

Nadia Beller Delgado after the shooting attack, and an X-ray showing the lodged bullets. Photo: Nadia Beller / Facebook

The attempted femicide of Nadia Beller Delgado opened a new front for Fernando Cerimedo. After the shooting attack and the Argentine consultant’s arrest, his ex-partner began to reveal conversations and details about the influence that, according to her account, he wielded in political circles in that country and in Argentina, as well as his ties to right-wing communication projects that extended their operations into Mexico.

Cerimedo’s relationship with Latin American politics has been built mainly around digital campaigns. He was a collaborator on the campaign of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz and later continued advising his administration on communications, while Beller maintains that his influence reached decisions within the government itself.

In Argentina, the activist claimed that her ex-partner maintained closeness with figures in Javier Milei’s circle and that he even took part in a political operation against Vice President Victoria Villarruel.

His connection to Mexico also runs through La Derecha Diario, the outlet he founded during the pandemic and that later came under shared control with the Spanish businessman Javier Negre. According to information cited by the newspaper El País, Cerimedo admitted to having used some 50,000 fake accounts on social media during the Argentine presidential campaign to spread content favorable to Milei.

Nadia Beller’s revelations coincide with the accusations that President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has made against La Derecha Diario. Just this past August 19, the president returned to the Fernando Cerimedo case to warn about how that outlet and other conservative platforms operate, which, she charged, resort to financial resources, automated accounts and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to position messages and make it appear that certain stances have greater backing on social media.

President Claudia Sheinbaum

President Claudia Sheinbaum. Photo: SinEmbargo

Referring to the Argentine consultant, the president also recalled the link that Cerimedo himself acknowledged with the businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of TV Azteca, ADN40 and other media outlets, a relationship that Sheinbaum had already mentioned before when denouncing the conservative outlet’s operation in Mexico.

“Beyond that, the issue is that here in the ‘mañanera’ we have denounced that it is an outlet used to amplify, and that he himself said that Salinas Pliego hired him,” said the head of the Executive when asked about the Argentine consultant’s arrest in Bolivia.

During the morning press conference, she explained that the mechanism consists of pushing a post through coordinated networks of profiles and paid promotion until it artificially becomes a trend.

At the same time, she stated that these operations make it possible to multiply false information, attacks and other narratives until they are projected as if they spontaneously reflected the opinion of users.

“Through La Derecha Diario, we have denounced this several times here, they use this outlet to amplify news on social media linked to many robots, many bots, that with money boost news to create a kind of… opinion, as if what happened on social media were really what people think. But no, they are nodes that publish something that is generally a lie or an insult, and from there a wave of paid posts is generated. That is how the networks work,” she asserted.

The president added that tools like AI have made it easier to mass-produce and spread this kind of material, and she recalled that her government had already flagged La Derecha Diario as part of a structure with a presence in various Latin American countries and connected to right-wing political groups. In that context, she insisted that it was relevant to understand both Cerimedo’s connections in Mexico and the methods used to influence public conversation.

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