Jorge Berindoague Alcocer is a Bolivian politician who served as Minister without Portfolio responsible for Hydrocarbons and Energy,Bolivia, in the Europa World Year Book, 2003; published by Europa Publications from March to October 2003,Electoral Rules and the Transformation of Bolivian Politics: The Rise of Evo Morales, by Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian; published September 29, 2008, by Springer Science+Business Media under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. Berindoague is a member of MNR.
He left Bolivia in the wake of his actions during the 2003 Bolivian gas conflict, taking refuge in the United States of America. Bolivia: Former officials convicted over massacre, at Amnesty International; published August 31, 2011; retrieved May 28, 2020 In 2008 he faced extradition for his role in that conflict,Bolivia asks US to extradite ex-president, by Dan Keane of the Associated Press, in the Hindustan Times; published November 12, 2008; retrieved May 28, 2020 but in 2012 the American government rejected this, on the grounds that the Gas Conflict did not meet the definition of genocide as specified in the American-Bolivian extradition treaty of 1995;What Hollywood ignores about Bolivia’s ex-president, by Linda Farthing, at al-Jazeera; published November 8, 2015; retrieved May 28, 2015 as well, in 2007 Berindoague told the Associated Press that he "had long been" an American citizen.Correction: Peru-Bolivia, by the Associated Press, in the San Diego Union-Tribune; published June 19, 2009; retrieved May 28, 2020
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