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Weekend Entertainment GuideThis book marks the return to the high literary intensity that Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa mastered before he detoured into public life with his unsuccessful 1990 campaign for his country's presidency. It's a welcome return, says TIME's Paul Gray. What starts as a simple murder-mystery puzzle in the Andes mountains rapidly becomes an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving...
Authorities in Peru take a far harsher view of Lori Berenson. They regard her as a dangerous radical who became closely involved with Marxist terrorists of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)--hiding them in her home, stockpiling their weapons, helping them plan an attack on the Peruvian Congress. Convicted of treason last week in Lima after a perfunctory three-day trial by a closed military tribunal, Berenson was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole...
...police, Berenson arrived in Peru with a Panamanian arms dealer named Pacifico Castrellon and rented a three-story house in the Lima suburb of La Molina. She registered as a journalist, and her neighbors knew her only as a quiet gringa with a radiant smile. Berenson and Castrellon, Peruvian police say, were sent together to Peru to meet Miguel Rincon, second-in-command of the MRTA. Castrellon and Rincon, investigators told journalists, both have implicated Berenson. Castrellon says he and Berenson smuggled arms to the guerrillas through Central America; Rincon names her as his "foreign collaborator" in MRTA activities...
...charges. "The whole system is a secret one, where you don't know what the evidence is or what the charges are based on," she told TIME last week. Berenson may have one chance for a reprieve. She was convicted of treason, the most serious terrorism offense, and her Peruvian lawyers are appealing on the technical ground that she cannot be tried for this crime. "It is against international law to prosecute a foreigner for treason," says Grimaldo Achahui. "You can't take away her nationality...
...secret Peruvian military court sentenced Lori Berenson, 26, of New York City, to life imprisonment for treason. The prosecution said Berenson had aided the pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, which was planning an attack on the Peruvian Congress, by stockpiling weapons, renting housing for the rebels and gathering information by posing as a journalist. Berenson's lawyer has already filed an appeal...