Jorge Berindoague
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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]