Bolivia grants a travel document to Nadia Beller, who left the country bound for Mexico.

Nadia Beller, the Bolivian lawyer who was attacked by two hitmen on August 17 and accused the president's advisor, Fernando Cerimedo, of being the mastermind. The Bolivian Government granted a safe conduct to lawyer Nadia Beller, who left the country early Wednesday morning bound for Mexico, after receiving diplomatic asylum from that country, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Through a statement issued this morning, the Foreign Ministry reported that the decision was adopted after concluding the evaluation of the request submitted by the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia on November 4. The document was delivered during the early hours of Wednesday, after the determination was officially communicated to the diplomatic representation on Tuesday, November 10. Beller's departure was managed through a coordinated procedure between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Government, "Beller's exit from national territory was finalized during the morning of this Wednesday," the official note states. The Bolivian Government indicated that the granting of the safe conduct responds to compliance with national legal regulations and its international commitments, as well as its willingness to maintain relations of cooperation and mutual respect with Mexico. Lawyer Nadia Beller, ex-partner of Argentine consultant Fernando Cerimedo, gave statements on September 23, 2026, at police facilities wearing a bulletproof vest. REUTERS/Ipa Ibanez Beller had been under protection at the Mexican Embassy in La Paz since early November, where she sought refuge due to alleged acts of police harassment and lack of guarantees for her safety. The lawyer survived an armed attack at a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, where she was shot several times on the night of August 17. Hours after the attack, she attributed the intellectual authorship to her ex-partner, the chief advisor to President Rodrigo Paz, Fernando Cerimedo, who was preventively detained and remains confined in the Chonchocoro prison, on the outskirts of La Paz, accused of attempted femicide and illicit enrichment, while facing other cases. The attack unleashed a political storm for the Paz administration because it revealed the level of influence Cerimedo held and generated suspicions about how power is managed. Beller denounced alleged irregularities and acts of corruption that, according to her statements, would involve Cerimedo and people from the intimate and family environment of the first magistrate. Fernando Cerimedo, along with the President of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, and former Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo, in a high-level meeting with Marco Rubio, Secretary of the US State Department. These accusations gained greater political weight with the dissemination of at least 15 records of phone calls attributed to Cerimedo and ministers, police chiefs, the president himself, his wife, and his daughter. In the conversations, which have been validated by independent verification agencies but have not yet been submitted to specialized expert analysis, there is talk of negotiated settlements, tensions in the cabinet, and disputes over the assignment of positions, among other topics. In the midst of the investigations against Cerimedo, the Prosecutor's Office granted Beller the status of protected witness. However, the 33-year-old lawyer denounced that her custodians harassed her family and international journalists who tried to interview her. "I made the decision to seek my own safety away from their attempts to intimidate me and I accepted this humanitarian aid," Beller justified this Monday, in an interview with Radio Fides from the Mexican embassy in La Paz. The lawyer pointed out that although she currently has no open proceedings against her, she considered that there were no "guarantees to pass through a migration checkpoint and be illegally detained." "I am not running away," she affirmed.