Roger Pinto Molina (23 April 1960 – 16 August 2017) was a
Bolivia
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n right-wing politician.
Life and career
Pinto was born in
Santa Rosa de Yacuma
Santa Rosa de Yacuma or Santa Rosa del Yacuma (short: ''Santa Rosa'') is a small town in the Amazon pampas of the Bolivian Beni Department.
Location
''Santa Rosa de Yacuma'' is the administrative center of the Santa Rosa Municipality in the Jos ...
,
Beni. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1997, from the single-member constituency 67 in
Pando (covering areas in the provinces Nicolás Suárez, Manuripi and General Federico Román) as a
Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) candidate. His alternate was Edgar Balcázar Velasco.
He has also been the Prefect of Pando.
Se recupera la soberanía en Pando
'
As of 2002, Pinto served as Director of the Baptist Church, Technical Assistant of the
Central Bank of Bolivia
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History
The bank was established by Law 632, pas ...
, president of the Cooperativa de Teléfonos, Cobija, member of the national directorate of the Telephone Cooperatives Federation (FECOTEL), president of the Electoral Court of Pando, president of the Asociación de Ganaderos, Pando, municipal council in the city of
Cobija and departmental executive secretary of ADN.
[''Directorio: 1997 - 2002''. La Paz: Centro de Investigación del Congreso Nacional (CICON), 2002. p. 193] Pinto is also a major land-owner, owning a 3,269 hectares of land in El Lago and El Atajo (both areas in the municipality of
Porvenir El Porvenir or Porvenir (Spanish: "The Future") may refer to:
Places
*Porvenir Municipality, Bolivia
*Porvenir, Pando, Bolivia
*Porvenir, Chile
*Porvenir Volcano, Costa Rica
*Porvenir, Texas, United States
*El Porvenir Parish, Palanda Canton, Zamo ...
).
In 2005, Pinto was elected to the Senate as a
Podemos candidate from Pando. He served as the head of the Podemos faction in the Senate. He was reelected to the Senate in 2009, as a candidate of
Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence. His alternate is Linda Flor Brasilda Villalobos.
Accusations and failed asylum
Pinto was accused of involvement in the
September 11, 2008 massacre in Porvenir. The Bolivian government accused Pinto of having, during his tenure as prefect of Pando, sold twenty-two hectares of land to the department of Pando for the 'ridiculous' amount of .
As of 2012, he sought refuge in the
Brazilian Embassy in
La Paz
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. He was granted
asylum in Brazil but was not given
safe conduct
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by Evo Morales Government to leave Bolivia.
Pinto left the Brazilian Embassy Friday 23 August 2013 with the help of people from the Embassy. This help was allegedly granted by the indirect influence of the Brazilian foreign minister
Antonio Patriota
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (born April 27, 1954) is the current Ambassador of Brazil to Egypt and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Patriota took office as foreign minister on January 1, 2011, and remained in office until August 26, 2013.
A gra ...
. Patriota resigned from office because of his action 27 August 2013.
Death
Molina died on 16 August 2017 at the age of 57 from injuries sustained in a small plane crash that he was piloting.
Morre em Brasília ex-senador boliviano Roger Pinto Molina
References
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1960 births
2017 deaths
People from José Ballivián Province
Nationalist Democratic Action politicians
Social Democratic Power politicians
Members of the Senate of Bolivia
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia)
20th-century Bolivian politicians
21st-century Bolivian politicians