Breathe
By Pamela Cerdeira
One person sought me out to talk about Andrés Roemer, although his story was identical to that of other victims, she saw an angle that had not been addressed by any media, the labor angle. I was able to talk to several young people who worked for Andres during the same period, I was struck by the fact that all the profiles were similar, brilliant men and women, graduates of good universities, with studies abroad. Why does he look for intelligent people? Smart people enjoy being recognized for their intelligence, many have insecurities about their abilities, he had built an image of an intellectual so that made him the king of recognition and perhaps the most obvious, to work for them. The work angle, through which he related to them, was an extension of an abusive personality that was also drawn in the stories of the victims of abuse, that which moves between seduction and humiliation, recognition and harassment. From these interviews I wrote a text for the Washington Post in which I commented on how several of the stories allowed me to find great similarities with the personality of Keith Raniere, founder of NXIVM.
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