Pemerintah Bolivia meminta bantuan Komisi Tinggi PBB Urusan Pengungsi (UNHCR) untuk menemukan sebuah negara yang akan menerima Samartino setelah Kuba dan AS menolak menerimanya.
The Bolivian government turned to the UNHCR, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, for help in finding a country that would accept Samartino after both Cuba and the United States refused to take him.