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: Governing Through Crime

The Face of the "Monster:" Lori Berenson's Saga as the Criminal Other in the heart of Peru

By Jonathan Simor

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Jennifer Egan provides a moving account in the NYT Magazine of Lori Berenson's life since being sentenced to life in prison as a terrorist by the Peruvian government of dictator Alberto Fujimori, and since being released on parole (in fits and starts beginning last fall). Berenson a 25 year old American, was convicted in 1996 of collaborating with the Tupac Amaru revolutionary movement, whom the government claimed (apparently with some reason since) was planning a violent seizure of Peru's parliament. Despite the fact that Berenson was at best a minor participant in the plot, including renting an apartment for the group and if the government's case is to be believed, scouting the parliament using her cover as a journalist (something that as Berenson notes, anyone could do since it was a public building), she has long been vilified by ordinary Peruvians as the very face of terror, and her legal travails and recent parole release have been subjects of enormous media frenzies...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).