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SENTENCED. LORI BERENSON, 31, American citizen convicted on charges of colluding with guerrillas to take the Peruvian Congress hostage; to 20 years in prison; in Lima, Peru. The M.I.T. dropout, sentenced to life in prison in 1996, sought and received a new trial. After the verdict, she defiantly told the court, "I consider this an unjust sentence...
...PERU Berenson Verdict Three judges in Lima found New Yorker Lori Berenson guilty of collaborating with the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and sentenced her to 20 years. The court found her innocent of active militancy in the guerrilla group and of helping to procure international financing, which would have carried a life sentence. Berenson was jailed for life by a secret military tribunal in 1996 on charges of treason, but was granted a retrial on lesser charges last year. She declared the judgment "unjust" and lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court...
...There doesn't seem to be much doubt among Peruvians that Lori Berenson was clearly hooked up with the MRTA (the leftist Tupac Amaru guerrilla group). So for Peruvians the issue of unfairness (unless you assume there's something basically unfair in the court system) is moderated by the fact that she got a second trial and she got an enormous amount of attention, which most Peruvians don't get under similar circumstances...
TIME.com: U.S. reports have raised questions about whether Lori Berenson received a fair trial in Peru. How do Peruvians seem to see this case...
...have much strength. Peru's main problems today, though, are economic. The issue is creating jobs. That's why Toledo was elected. He fought against Fujimori, and he promised to get the country moving again economically. That's where the attention is, not on overthrowing the state. Lori Berenson has said that the people are still oppressed, still poor. Well, they just had democratic elections, but they are still poor. They are certainly oppressed by their economic circumstances. People have a very hard time getting through the day, and that's where their attention is. Peruvians have high expectations...