The authorities of Mexico have granted political asylum to Nadia Beller, the former partner of Argentine strategist Fernando Cerimedo. This has been confirmed by the Government of Bolivia, which is now analyzing whether to provide her with a safe-conduct so that she can leave the country, after she reported having been the victim of an attempted assassination that would have been ordered by Cerimedo.
Bolivia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has explained that "it received, on November 4, 2026, the official communication from the Embassy of Mexico by which it was informed about the granting of diplomatic asylum to Mrs. Beller Delgadillo and the corresponding safe-conduct was requested".
In a note circulated on its social networks, the Foreign Affairs department has specified that the request for safe-conduct for Beller, former candidate of the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS), "is under evaluation (...) without, to date, any decision having been adopted or a formal response having been issued in that regard".
With this statement, the Ministry has sought to clarify its position "in the face of information released regarding a possible agreement" between Bolivia and Mexico to allow Beller’s trip. Such speculation arose after the meeting that the ministers Héctor Francisco Huanca and Roberto Velasco held last week in Madrid, on the sidelines of the XXX Ibero-American Summit. "At that meeting, no commitment was assumed to grant the safe-conduct requested, nor was its delivery agreed upon upon the return of the Bolivian foreign minister to the country," the Chancellery has stressed.
On August 17, Beller was shot at in a hotel in Santa Cruz. Hours later, the Police detained her former partner, Fernando Cerimedo, who remains in a Bolivian prison accused of attempted feminicide as the alleged intellectual author of the attack, in addition to facing other legal cases.
Beller maintains that the attack was intended to prevent her from revealing information about Cerimedo’s ties with high-level figures in the politics of Bolivia and Argentina, including the presidents Rodrigo Paz and Javier Milei.