SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA — Nadia Beller, a 33-year-old Bolivian lawyer, political analyst and former candidate for the party of ex-president Evo Morales, survived being shot three times outside a hotel here Monday night. The ambush has since dragged President Rodrigo Paz's nine-month-old government into a scandal centered on Fernando Cerimedo, the Argentine strategist who has operated as one of Paz's closest confidants without ever holding a formal title. Prosecutors opened a criminal case against Cerimedo, Beller's former partner, on suspicion of attempted femicide within hours of the attack, according to La República.
