Fernando Cerimedoformer La Libertad communication advisor progresses, ratified at this time before justice that the former head of the National Disability Agency (Andis), Diego Spagnuolo, I had told him about a drug purchase circuit where Supposedly they were paid bribes that ended in the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Mileiand his right hand, Eduardo “Lule” Menem. He was summoned as a witness and his statement shocks the government.
Cerimedo is one of the characters of the moment in the coimas scandal. Spagnuolo privately points out for having recorded it without its consent. The hypothesis is completed with the role of the media businessman Franco Bindi, whom Cerimedo would have sent the audios to spread them. In the end, they transcended in the streaming channel of Jorge Rial, Carnival.
The government divides between two hypotheses. One is that of the Cerimedo-Bindi duo. The other, more serious, and that they know public, points out that it was Spagnuolo himself who recorded himself and then spread the audios.
But who is Cerimedo and why is it under suspicion? It is a consultant who advised the government in the area of digital communication and that would also be part of the daily right, the “House Organ” of the ruling in the networks. But not only that: Cerimedo’s wife, Natalia Basil, was last November one of the disability directors, under the orders of Spagnuolo. The former head of Andis even accused her in deprived of wanting to “serrouchar the floor.” The woman resigned, it is not known if in disagreement for the alleged corrupt practices within the body.
Cermimedo himself denied that he has recorded the audios or filtering, but he did admit that he knew him and that they talked about what was happening in the Andis. According to its version, Spagnuolo used it as “ear” to vent. This story also does not leave the government very well, with which Cerimedo has been distanced for a long time. Public short circuits began in February, with the Libra case. At that time, Cerimedo, already out of the government, came out with the cuttingfalls on his networks: “To the one who said it was an idea that goes looking for a corner of the world to hide.” In the Casa Rosada it was read as a provocation.
This magazine is seen that, already in the months before the scandal, Cerimedo spoke on the record with journalists about what was happening in disability. It was, surely, as Franco Bindi, the other indicated by the filtration, reached the media entrepreneur.
News investigated and interviewed Cerimedo in October 2022, when he already stepped on. In that note with Juan Luis González, the consultant happily admitted that he made “negative campaign” against the adversaries of his clients. And that I used trolls for that. Any similarity with libertarian policies is not a coincidence.
Next, the report of 2022.
News: Were you the organizer of Eduardo Bolsonaro’s visit to the country?
CERIMEDO: Yes, I was the coordinator. We had dinner at several politicians for Bolsonaro to take the support of the representatives of our right to Brazil. That’s why I made the invitation on a personal level and nobody knew who the most was going.
News: Did Milei get off when he learned that the Pro Halcons would go?
CERIMEDO: Yes, he called me and told me that I couldn’t go because I thought they were going to associate it with the Pro. He has his point, but I couldn’t stop inviting him. That is why I coordinated a breakfast between them.
News: He usually works with provocative campaigns.
CERIMEDO: In some cases yes. Brazil is one of those. We had to generate noise to wake up to the undecided vote. A guy who does not like Bolsonaro for his forms, you tell him: “Look that Lula supports Chávez.” Then you put them to doubt. You influence a small sector, but that can be decisive.
News: Does that have a technical name?
CERIMEDO: It is what is called a negative campaign. It does not dirty, because you are not lying to him. You make him see things from your opponent that he would not want to see.
News: Do campaigns include trolls?
CERIMEDO: Of course. We start from the base that if you don’t do it, the other is going to do it. The Callcenter of Macri were badly made, but here (by their office of Puerto Madero) there is artificial intelligence and troll farm. You do not perceive that it is not a person: there are accounts that have 30 thousand followers.
News: Did they use with Bolsonaro and their sayings against the gays?
CERIMEDO: Yes. In the 2018 campaign he had spoken very ugly of the gays. How did we reverse that? By WhatsApp we started sending thousands of trolls messages saying: “I am gay. Bolsonaro can be a Nazi, but the economy is fine and we will live safer.” From that influence, part of the gay community supported him.
News: Talk about things that are taboos
CERIMEDO: No one really has the eggs to say that this happens. They are things that exist. The common voter knows that there are trolls and that the surveys are manipulated. Do not underestimate it anymore.
