Argentine digital campaign consultant Fernando Cerimedo was linked to Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori's campaign team after immigration records confirmed his Lima travel on inauguration day.
The travel logs obtained by Peruvian investigative newspaper La República validate statements made by Cerimedo's former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller. She revealed that the Argentine strategist maintained direct contacts within Fujimori's conservative Fuerza Popular party during her 2026 presidential run.
Beller provided La República with a photograph sent to her by Cerimedo on July 28, 2026, from the Marriott hotel in the Miraflores district of Lima. The photograph depicts Cerimedo alongside an unidentified woman who allegedly acted as his primary contact within Fujimori's campaign organization.
In a recorded conversation with the newspaper, Beller stated that Cerimedo sent her the photograph on the day of Fujimori's presidential swearing-in ceremony. She explained that Cerimedo told her a member of his local campaign team requested he meet with the unidentified woman, whom Beller understood to be a Peruvian politician involved in the campaign, for breakfast at the hotel.
According to Beller, the relationship between Cerimedo and Fujimori's political operation was not a recent development. She stated that the connection began in 2025, matching the start of Fuerza Popular's fourth presidential campaign, which Fujimori officially announced on October 30 of that year.
Immigration records tracking travel to Lima
Cerimedo, 44, who was born on May 1, 1981, has been widely known as a digital consultant and operator behind online smear campaigns and artificial news operations for right-wing political candidates across Latin America. Official immigration records confirm his frequent movements into Peru during the presidential campaign cycle.
The official travel logs show that Cerimedo first entered Peru from Argentina on December 28, 2025, departing two days later on December 30. Shortly after Fujimori launched her candidacy, he returned to Lima from Bolivia on November 9, 2025, before departing for Colombia on the same day.
On December 9, 2025, Cerimedo arrived in Lima from Bolivia and returned to Bolivia that same day. At the time, he was actively advising right-wing presidential candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira in Bolivia. His final recorded trip to Peru occurred on July 27, 2026, when he arrived from Bolivia, before departing back to Bolivia on July 28, 2026, matching the exact date of Fujimori's presidential inauguration.
Assassination attempt and troll farm raid
The revelations surrounding Cerimedo's activities emerged following a violent incident in Bolivia on August 17, 2026. Beller traveled to a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the commercial capital of Bolivia, to collect information regarding an ongoing investigation when two hitmen opened fire on her, inflicting three gunshot wounds.
Beller, who was pregnant at the time, publicly accused her former partner Cerimedo of orchestrating the attack. Bolivian authorities subsequently arrested the Argentine consultant and conducted raids on several properties, uncovering an organized digital troll farm.
Investigators reported that the operation utilized networks of simulated social media accounts to disseminate fraudulent news stories, poison public discourse, and manipulate online opinion trends in favor of specific political clients.
Beller stated that political parties regularly contracted Cerimedo to deploy aggressive digital campaigns for right-wing candidates. Before his arrest, Cerimedo had boasted of securing election victories for Bolivian politician Rodrigo Paz Pereira, Honduran candidate Nasry Asfura, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña, Argentine President Javier Milei, and Chilean politician José Kast. Following the exposure of the assassination plot and the troll farm raid, all named political figures denied having any professional or personal interaction with Cerimedo.
Connections to Fujimori advisers
The disclosure of Cerimedo's movements coincides with broader scrutiny of Fujimori's campaign advisory team. On Friday, August 21, 2026, investigative weekly magazine Hildebrandt en sus Trece revealed that Fujimori retained Argentine financier Damián Valenzuela Mayer as a secret political advisor.
When questioned by La República regarding potential ties to Cerimedo, Valenzuela denied knowing the digital operator. However, addressing his relationship with Cuban-American political strategist Carlos Díaz-Rosillo, Valenzuela's attorney David Torres Barreto stated that the two men have maintained a long-standing friendship and professional respect, sharing academic and personal spaces alongside Fujimori.
Díaz-Rosillo serves as director of the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom, a Florida-based research institution that pays Fujimori $45,000 annually for delivering lectures. Official immigration records verify that Díaz-Rosillo, Valenzuela, and Cerimedo all arrived and overlapped in Lima on July 28, 2026, for Fujimori's presidential inauguration. Valenzuela previously commented that the complex web of connections resembled the plot of a television series, though asserting it represented actual events.
Media outlets and shared business partners
Investigative findings also point to media connections linking Cerimedo to Fujimori's orbit through Spanish commentator Javier Negre. Cerimedo and Negre co-founded the digital news platform La Derecha Diario, which published numerous articles supporting Fujimori's candidacy throughout the presidential campaign.
Negre attended Fujimori's presidential swearing-in ceremony in Lima as a special invited guest and published a photograph taken with the newly inaugurated president on social media.
Further organizational ties exist through Argentine representative Andrés "Andy" Rivas, who manages operations in Uruguay for the Adam Smith Center under Díaz-Rosillo's direction. Business records confirm that Rivas maintains an active commercial partnership with Cerimedo, establishing a direct link between Fujimori's academic sponsor and the Argentine digital consultant.
