It began in the grey hush before dawn, when the world was still and Santa Cruz had not yet shaken itself awake. Fernando Cerimedo landed at Viru Viru International Airport on a Tuesday that would change everything, and was taken into custody before the city even had a chance to process what was happening. Hours earlier, Nadia Beller, the woman who had once shared his life, had survived something unspeakable: two men dressed as food delivery workers had approached her outside a hotel in the eastern Bolivian city, pulled out guns, and opened fire. One shot, then another, then another.…

Picture this: you’re doom-scrolling through TikTok or Instagram, and a woman appears on your screen, sitting on a couch next to her husband, smiling sweetly at the camera. She says, “I just asked him what he thinks of my pregnant body.” Then the video cuts to her husband, who lets out a long, dramatic “Ewwww”—half retch, half shout, the kind of sound that makes you cringe and laugh at the same time. It’s funny, but also a little confusing. Then you realize what’s happening. That “pregnant body” question wasn’t the real question at all. She probably asked him something completely…