The Scandal That Could Break the Latin American Far Right

On Tuesday, August 18, an Argentine citizen named Fernando Cerimedo was at the Viru Viru International Airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Cerimedo, age forty-five, was charged with the attempted homicide of his ex-partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, and ordered held for 180 days of pretrial detention. The details are grisly: security camera footage showed hit men, disguised as delivery workers, firing on an unsuspecting Beller at point-blank range before fleeing the scene.…