Jorge Berindoague
Jorge Berindoague Alcocer is a Bolivian politician who served as Minister without Portfolio responsible for Hydrocarbons and Energy,[1] from March to October 2003,[2] under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.[1] Berindoague is a member of MNR.[2]
He left Bolivia in the wake of his actions during the 2003 Bolivian gas conflict, taking refuge in the United States of America.[3] In 2008 he faced extradition for his role in that conflict,[4] 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;[5] as well, in 2007 Berindoague told the Associated Press that he "had long been" an American citizen.[6]
References
- ^ a b Bolivia, in the Europa World Year Book, 2003; published by Europa Publications
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Bolivia: Former officials convicted over massacre, at Amnesty International; published August 31, 2011; retrieved May 28, 2020
- ^ 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
- ^ What Hollywood ignores about Bolivia’s ex-president, by Linda Farthing, at al-Jazeera; published November 8, 2015; retrieved May 28, 2015
- ^ Correction: Peru-Bolivia, by the Associated Press, in the San Diego Union-Tribune; published June 19, 2009; retrieved May 28, 2020