One method, many borders
The modern far right is not a set of separate national stories. It is a network — sharing operatives, money, institutions, and a common repertoire — that moves people and narratives across borders.
This hub documents that network the way we document everything: case by case, graded on the record. It has four visible faces — the mobile operative, the franchised conference, the global think-tank machine, and the would-be strategist — and a recurring tell, the manufactured “stolen election.” We name the documented ties and leave the conspiracy embellishments out.
What this hub is about
Across the Americas and Europe, the last decade’s far-right surge has been unusually connected: the same consultants surface in one country after another, the same U.S. brand and endorsements travel abroad, the same think-tank network supplies the ideas, and the same tactic — the pre-emptive claim that any lost election was “stolen” — recurs with the polish of a franchise. This hub treats that as a documented phenomenon, not a grand unified conspiracy: we trace the specific, sourced ties between people, money, institutions, and campaigns, and grade each one.
The discipline matters here more than usual. “It’s all coordinated” is exactly the claim that collapses under scrutiny and discredits the real, documentable links. So we name what is on the record — a shared strategist, a franchised conference, a funded institute, a court filing — and say plainly where the evidence stops.
The hub carries four graded spokes — the four faces of the network:
The operative — Fernando Cerimedo. Milei’s 2023 strategist, a “personal consultant” to Bolivia’s Paz, a Bolsonaro ally, The Economist’s “MAGA’s man in Latin America” — who ran the false 2022 Brazil voting-fraud livestream, was named in the coup-attempt probe, and in 2026 was jailed in Bolivia over a shooting. Read it.
The conference — CPAC International. The American Conservative Union has franchised its flagship abroad — Brazil, Hungary, Australia, Japan, Korea, Israel, Mexico — a shared stage headlined by Bolsonaro and Orbán. Read it.
The machine — Atlas Network. A U.S. hub that funds and trains ~600 free-market think tanks in 100+ countries — “a think tank that creates think tanks” — the institutional layer under the movement. Read it.
The strategist — Steve Bannon abroad. “The Movement” in Brussels, the Trisulti monastery “academy,” the Bolsonaro tie — an openly attempted, and largely failed, export of Trumpism. Read it.
The tell: the “stolen election.” The network’s signature is the manufactured fraud narrative — Brazil 2022, modeled on the U.S. in 2020 — used to delegitimize results in advance and justify what comes after.
OPENDocumented (not alleged) financing links between these campaigns, conferences, and institutes and U.S. donors or vehicles — the claim asserted constantly and sourced rarely.
OPENThe country-by-country overlap where the four faces meet — e.g., an Atlas-affiliated institute, a CPAC franchise, and a Bannon or Cerimedo tie converging on one election.
OPENEduardo Bolsonaro’s activities in the United States and the cross-border lobbying around the Brazilian coup-attempt prosecutions.
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The Far-Right International.
One playbook, many borders — the transnational network of shared operatives, a franchised U.S. conference, a global think-tank machine, and a would-be strategist that moves the far-right project across national lines. Documented ties, graded case by case.
Four faces, one phenomenon
Operatives. A small, mobile cast works race after race. Cerimedo alone is documented across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and the Honduras endorsement — a consultant class that treats the hemisphere as one campaign.
Conferences. CPAC’s franchises are the shared stage — the same U.S. brand transplanted to allied movements, trading endorsements and legitimacy between the American and foreign right.
Institutions. Atlas Network is the ideas-and-money backbone — the machine that manufactures the local “independent” think tanks whose research underwrites right-wing campaigns abroad.
Strategists. Bannon is the would-be welder of it all — the alliance, the academy, the Latin America arm — documented in his own projects and mostly a flop, which is itself part of the record.
Where we stop. What we do not assert is a single command structure or a secret money pipeline directing all of it. Those are the claims made loudest and proved least; this hub sticks to the documented ties and flags the rest as open leads.
Documented ties, not a grand conspiracy
Every case here is graded on mainstream and primary sourcing. A shared strategist, a franchised conference, a funded institute, a court filing, an arrest — FACT. A charged individual is named as charged, with the presumption of innocence held on guilt. Sweeping “CIA-directed network” / “dark money” framing is graded SOME SMOKE and kept out of our voice unless and until it is documented — while the questions it raises are posed openly rather than buried. The network is real; it does not need embellishing, and embellishing it is the fastest way to get the true parts dismissed.
The record, piece by piece
Four spokes — the operative, the conference, the machine, and the strategist — with the open leads above as the next ones.
'MAGA's man in Latin America,' charged with a murder-for-hire
Flagship (the operative face) of The Far-Right International. Fernando Cerimedo, 42, is an Argentine political consultant and a documented operative of Latin America's far-right wave: a main strategist behind Javier Milei's 2023 Argentine campaign, a 'personal consultant' to Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz Pereira (a role the presidency confirmed, noting he held no government post), an ally of Brazil's Eduardo Bolsonaro, and — per The Economist (Dec 2025) — 'MAGA's man in Latin America,' credited with helping secure Donald Trump's endorsement of Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, who won Honduras's December 2025 election. He ran livestreamed false claims in 2022 that Brazil's electronic voting was rigged against Bolsonaro and was named a co-conspirator by the Brazilian judiciary in its probe of the January 2023 attempt to overturn that election. On August 18, 2026 he was arrested at a Santa Cruz de la Sierra airport, accused of ordering the shooting of Nadia Beller — shot three times by men disguised as delivery riders (captured on CCTV), who survived and told police she believed Cerimedo lured her into a trap; a judge ordered him held in 180-day preventive detention at Palmasola prison on an attempted-femicide accusation, with prosecutors citing messages allegedly sent by him. He denies involvement. His résumé and disinformation record are graded FACT (Guardian, Reuters, El País, The Economist, Globo); the shooting, arrest, and detention are FACT; his guilt in the attack is charged, not convicted, and held to the presumption of innocence. The viral Grayzone framing of a 'CIA network' funneling 'dark money' to Trump-endorsed candidates is single-sourced, uncorroborated, and explicitly NOT adopted.
CPAC goes global: the American right's export franchise
CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference, run since 1974 by the American Conservative Union (ACU) — is the premier gathering of the U.S. right and the stage that helped launch Trump's political career in 2011. Since the late 2010s the ACU has franchised the brand abroad: CPAC-branded events have been held in Brazil, Hungary, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, and Mexico, among others. The two marquee franchises show the export: CPAC Brazil became a fixture of the Bolsonaro movement (headlined by Jair and Eduardo Bolsonaro), and CPAC Hungary, launched in 2022, is a showcase for Viktor Orbán, who used it to promote a 'Make Europe Great Again' message and urge the U.S. and European right to coordinate — the same year he keynoted CPAC Texas. The traffic runs both ways: U.S. figures headline abroad and foreign nationalist leaders headline in the U.S., each lending the other legitimacy. We grade the franchises and speaker line-ups as FACT and treat any characterization of CPAC International as a single coordinated movement as attributed argument; we do NOT claim it is a command structure or that appearing at a franchise proves participation in any specific plan.
Atlas Network: the think tank that builds think tanks
Atlas Network (legal name Atlas Economic Research Foundation) was founded in 1981 by British entrepreneur Antony Fisher, a disciple of F.A. Hayek, to connect free-market think tanks into a global web. Described as 'a think tank that creates think tanks,' it partners with roughly 600 organizations across more than 100 countries and reported ~$24 million in revenue in 2024, coordinating training, networking, and grants from Arlington, Virginia. Its lineage is the postwar market-libertarian movement — Fisher founded Britain's Institute of Economic Affairs and helped launch the Fraser, Manhattan, and Pacific Research institutes — and Hayek, Thatcher, and Friedman formally endorsed it; its membership grew to include Koch-family-affiliated organizations, and it has drawn business funding to organize libertarian groups in the developing world (in 1981 helping Hernando de Soto found Peru's Institute for Liberty and Democracy). Investigative reporting (The Intercept and others) has tied Atlas-affiliated institutes to right-wing movements abroad, notably Latin America (e.g., groups linked to Brazil's Free Brazil Movement and the campaign against Dilma Rousseff). We grade the network's existence, scale, lineage, and funding as FACT and treat the specific causal claim — that Atlas 'engineered' a given country's politics — as attributed reporting (SOME SMOKE), a serious thread to weigh and pin case by case rather than assert. We do NOT claim every partner is a political operation or that a grant proves control of a campaign.
Steve Bannon's export business: the far-right international he tried (and mostly failed) to build
After leaving the Trump White House, Steve Bannon set out to export the movement. In 2018 he launched 'The Movement,' a Brussels-based effort to unite Europe's nationalist and populist-right parties into a coordinated bloc ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections, courting Italy's Matteo Salvini, France's Marine Le Pen, and Nigel Farage — an effort that drew headlines and little durable structure as European far-right parties largely kept their distance and it faded. He also backed a plan to convert the Abbey of Trisulti, a former Italian monastery, into an academy for training nationalist and populist politicians, operated by the Christian-right Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI); Reuters reported in 2018 that Bannon helped craft the curriculum, and Cardinal Raymond Burke said Bannon would help lead it. It never opened: DHI was evicted from the abbey in 2021 for non-payment of bills, and its former chairman, Luca Volontè, was sentenced to four years for corruption over bribes funneled to the institute. Bannon extended the project to the Americas, aligning himself with the Bolsonaro movement (describing Eduardo Bolsonaro as 'The Movement's' Latin America representative). We grade the documented projects, ties, and outcomes as FACT — and state plainly that 'The Movement' and the academy largely failed; the deeper operational coordination in Latin America we treat as attributed (SOME SMOKE), pinned case by case. We do NOT inflate the efforts into a functioning international or assert operational control over foreign parties.
Questions worth taking seriously
Isn't 'the Far-Right International' just a conspiracy theory?
No — and we build it specifically to avoid that. We do not claim a single command structure or a secret directing hand; we document specific, sourced ties: a strategist who worked four countries, a U.S. conference franchised abroad, a global think-tank network, a shared fraud-narrative tactic, court filings and an arrest. Where a claim about coordinated money or intelligence direction can’t be documented, we flag it as an open lead and keep it out of our voice.
How is this different from Sowing Division or the Pretoria Playbook?
Sowing Division tracks domestic U.S. disinformation and manufactured internal enemies; the Pretoria Playbook traces one ideological pipeline (apartheid South Africa to the American right). This hub is the transnational operative layer — the people, conferences, institutions, and tactics that move the far-right project across national borders. They overlap and cross-link, but this one follows the border-crossing.
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