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According to McNamara, she was interrogated for a week by Peru's counterterrorism police and Interpol before she was allowed to call a lawyer ( or the U.S. embassy. On Dec. 28, McNamara was transferred to Canto Grande, Peru's maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Lima. She was housed in a cellblock where some of Sendero Luminoso's most notorious leaders are kept, awaiting trial or serving sentences for crimes ranging from sabotage to assassination...
Considered one of South America's most secure jails when it opened in 1986, Canto Grande no longer deserves that reputation. Its closed-circuit televisions and searchlights are broken. Inside the four-story women's cellblock, the inmates have taken over and turned it into a Senderista training camp, complete with red felt and tinsel banners that proclaim LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION...
...interview with TIME inside Canto Grande two weeks ago, McNamara was careful to refer all questions about Senderista politics to the smartly dressed, unfailingly polite "delegate" inmates who run the cellblock. Delegate Dalila claimed that all the pavilion's inmates belong to the "authentic" Peruvian Communist Party, which is how Senderistas see themselves. These true believers disdain both the Soviet Union, which they consider to be as imperialist as the U.S., and today's China. Their goal is to establish a workers' state along the lines of Mao Zedong's China. "We believe in armed struggle to take power," said...
...kill them all, in a repeat of the massacres that occurred when authorities put down Sendero uprisings in three penitentiaries in 1986. More than 250 rebels died in the incidents. Those fears were fanned last Easter, when, according to prisoners, paramilitary troops attacked the men's pavilion at Canto Grande with fire bombs and heavy weapons, wounding eight...
...suddenly arrived. The lower-court judge investigating her case decided to drop it because of insufficient evidence. That decision must be ratified by a superior court, however, before the matter is closed. Minutes after receiving the good news, the prisoners gathered downstairs to bid the American farewell. "Goodbye to Canto Grande," they sang in Quechua, exchanging the traditional Andean lyrics for revolutionary rhetoric. "I am going to fight for justice . . . for the peasants and the poor, armed with a gun and a flag . . . I will fight the fascists...