La ex secretaria del embajador Altschul y del ministro Sánchez Céren será liberada por Perú
American Lori Berenson to be released from prison in PeruA Peruvian military court convicted Berenson, 40, of terrorism in 1996 and she spent 14 years behind bars. A judge granted her parole request Tuesday.
By Adriana Leon and Chris Kraul, Special to The Times
10:31 AM PDT, May 26, 2010
Reporting from Lima, Peru and Bogota, Colombia
Lori Berenson, an American convicted by a Peruvian court on terrorism charges 14 years ago, will be released on parole as early as Thursday, the national prisons institute said Wednesday.
The announcement came after a decision Tuesday by Judge Jessica Leon granting Berenson's request for release. The judge reportedly ordered her to remain in Peru until 2015.
"I'm very happy. I am going to have three glasses of wine," her father Mark Berenson told the Associated Press on Tuesday night when word of the parole was announced.
Berenson, a 40-year-old scion of a socially prominent New York family and a former MIT student, was convicted by a military court in 1996 and originally sentenced to life in prison as an accomplice to plans by the leftist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) to attack the Peruvian Congress building and take hostages.
Berenson's conviction was annulled in 2000. She was retried by a civilian court, convicted of lesser charges and sentenced to 20 years.
During the course of her confinement she was accused by prison authorities of disruption and "fomenting a lack of discipline" among other inmates. She married her attorney, Anibal Apari Sanchez, and gave birth to a son last year.
At her trial, Berenson was accused of producing a rough blueprint of the congress building to aid rebels in the takeover. Her family's efforts to reduce her sentence or have her transferred to a U.S. prison were undercut when, at a public news appearance, she clenched her fist and defiantly described the MRTA as a revolutionary and not a criminal group.
The case happened amid open warfare between the government of then-President Alberto Fujimori and leftist revolutionary groups such as the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. Fujimori categorically refused to pardon her.
Public opinion in Peru remains strongly anti-rebel, and talk shows were full of commentary by citizens expressing their disagreement with the release.
Leon and Kraul are special correspondents. Leon reported from Lima and Kraul from Bogota.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
What is the news?
ReplyDeleteNothing have been said in this article about the ties that existed between the Ambassador Mr. Altshul and Vice President and Education Minister Sanchez Ceren.
Where is the beef in this story?
What a deceitful writing!
The head news doesn`t concur with its content.
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.
Sanchez Ceren y Altschul podira Uds. ofrecerle un huesito en Washington o San Salvador a esta ex-guerrera?
ReplyDeleteMatatías,
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Que pasa con los titulos? no hace mucho uno de los articulos decia
ReplyDelete"Viceministro Garcia regresa de Arizona con las maletas vacias" la pagina corrigio el titulo y ahora se lee diferente. Este articulo aparenta haber sido titulado por una persona diferente de los autores originales. Exigimos seriedad!
El titulo es correcto, pues es eso lo que hace la noticia relevante pare este blog.
ReplyDelete"ofrecerle un huesito en Washington o San Salvador a esta ex-guerrera?"
ReplyDeleteO sea que no leiste el articulo:
Lori era estudiante de MIT, una de las mejores universidades del mundo. Pero abandono sus estudios para unirse al trabajo de solidaridad con Latinoamerica, primero en El Salvador y luego en Peru. Prefirio podrirse en la carcel por 15 años que agacharle la cabeza al fascismo peruano.
Fascismo peruano???de donde sacas eso, seria preferible que escondas tu ignorancia. Esta mujer llego al Peru como turista, se hizo pasar como periodista sin escribir para nadie y la casa que alquilo parecia un deposito de armas. Durante su juicio nego saber lo de las armas a pesar de que alli practicaban tiro. De llegar una persona asi a El Salvador mereceria la mas severa condena. Ella fue terrorista no guerrillera.
ReplyDelete"Fascismo peruano???de donde sacas eso"?
ReplyDeleteEntonces no te llego el memo de que Fujimori, quien metio preso a Lori, esta ahora preso por fascista???
Por si no te has dado cuenta la mayoria de los que combatieron a los regimenes fascistas en Latinoamerica estan ahora en los gobiernos de sus paises. La historia los absolvio.
Miles de internacionalistas 'asi' llegaron a El Salvador cuando habia un regimen fascista que combatir. Eso lo ignorabas? O nunca oiste de la enfermera francesa Madeleine Lagadec, violada y asesinada por el regimen sin ni siquiera ser combatiente.
Al visitador medico de las 16:18 del dia 26 de Mayo...
ReplyDeleteNO VENDA PRODUCTOS FARMACEUTICOS EN ESTA CARTELERA DE OPINIONES, VAYA A PONER SU MESA INFORMAL A LA SALIDA EN LA CALLE DEL HOSPITAL ROSALES Y ALLI SI VENDERA PROZAC !
Haaaaa, no se le olvide pagar impuestos Municipales a su Alcalde QuijAsno !!!
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.
Matatías,
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Ritalin y Prozac tambien las han encontrado enterradas por la Administracion pasada del anticomunista partido de la cruz negra y nefasta arena.
ReplyDeleteNO LAS VANDAS ACA ANA LISA QUE YA ESTAN CADUCADAS Y TE VA A CAER LA PNC JUNTO CON LA FISCALIA POR ANDAR VENDIENDOLAS: SIN PAGO DE IMPUESTO, SIN RECETA MEDICA Y SIN TENER UN NEGOCIO REGISTRADO.
HAAaaaa ANTI COMNUNISTAS TRAMPOSOS !
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.
Tonto, no vas a considerar a Lori con la digna enfermera francesa y otras que llegaron a hacer obra en tiempos de guerra. Lori llego a Lima para apoyar una pelea deun grupo sin apoyo popular. No compares a los MRTA con la guerrilla salvadoreña.
ReplyDeleteMatatías,
ReplyDeleteIt's ok, boy, it's ok.
Bye, bye communism.