Bitnami Django Stack and module “requests”: cannot

Very specific stuff. I'm running a Bitnami Django stack cloud VM on Amazon. On two different "regular" machines, I could install requests by running sudo pip install requests, but it seems that Bitname uses it's own specific structure, and something is going wrong when installing requests that way. It can also be related to issue #2028, but it was fixed long time ago.

I have the following traceback:

Environment:


Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://54.94.226.137/

Django Version: 1.7.7
Python Version: 2.7.6
Installed Applications:
('django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'vz_base',
 'vz_api',
 'vz_admin',
 'vz_user')
Installed Middleware:
('django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware')


Traceback:
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  98.                 resolver_match = resolver.resolve(request.path_info)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py" in resolve
  343.             for pattern in self.url_patterns:
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py" in url_patterns
  372.         patterns = getattr(self.urlconf_module, "urlpatterns", self.urlconf_module)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py" in urlconf_module
  366.             self._urlconf_module = import_module(self.urlconf_name)
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py" in import_module
  37.     __import__(name)
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/ProjetoVigZul/ProjetoVigZul/urls.py" in <module>
  5. from vz_api import urls as api_urls
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/ProjetoVigZul/vz_api/urls.py" in <module>
  8. from vz_api import views
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/ProjetoVigZul/vz_api/views.py" in <module>
  14. from vz_api.dguard import DGuardManager, DGuardIntegrationException
File "/opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/ProjetoVigZul/vz_api/dguard.py" in <module>
  5. import requests, json
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/__init__.py" in <module>
  58. from . import utils
File "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/utils.py" in <module>
  25. from . import certs

Exception Type: ImportError at /
Exception Value: cannot import name certs

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