Presidential Adviser Cerimedo Jailed as Nadia Beller Shooting Case Turns Political

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, Bolivia — Fernando Cerimedo, the Argentine political consultant accused of ordering an ambush that left his former partner bleeding on a hotel driveway, will spend the next six months in a Bolivian prison cell while investigators build a case against him. A judge in Santa Cruz ruled Friday night, after a marathon hearing, that Cerimedo poses enough of a flight and evidence-tampering risk to be held for 180 days — the maximum Bolivian law allows at this stage — while prosecutors pursue an attempted-feminicide charge tied to the August 17 shooting of lawyer and political activist Nadia Beller.What started as a violent attack on one woman has, in the space of a single wee