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...peaceful protest against the sell-off of state enterprises turned violent when police fired teargas into a crowd of students. Criminal gangs took advantage of the unrest that followed to loot shops and burn cars. Hospital sources said three people died from gunshot wounds and another 18 were injured. PERU Montesinos Nabbed Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence boss, is now behind bars after an eight-month manhunt. He is being questioned on bribery, money laundering and murder charges. Venezuelan cops nabbed Montesinos in Caracas, a step ahead of Peruvian agents, who had been alerted to the hideout...
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...
Haley S. Surti ’01, who had just days before received her bachelors’ degree cum laude from the College, died June 12 in a bus crash in Peru...
Surti was traveling in Peru as a researcher and writer for one of the Let’s Go travel guides published by the Harvard Student Agencies (HSA). Her death was the first fatality of a Let’s Go writer in the publication’s 40-year history...