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]