Reply #3: Peru's "free trade for the rich" government sucks!

[Peace Patriot]

pResident Garcia has a 25% approval rating. They have good reason to fear the voters/poor majority of Peru but no reason to fear Lori Berenson except that she is an advocate for social justice.

Lori Berenson should long ago have been released. She aided armed resisters to a horrible dictatorship, as an idealistic young woman, did not directly harm anyone, and has long disavowed violence as a means of change. Many people have tried to get her released--high clergymen, U.S. presidents (Carter, Clinton, even Bush), and her parents have stuck by her through thick and thin. She was initially tried by a military tribunal with a hooded judge. In subsequent more proper trials she was acquitted of being an active militant in the leftist guerilla group (but convicted of collaboration, which she later admitted and has apologized for). She's been in prison in Peru for 15 years. She's now 40 years old. Keeping her in prison serves no purpose of justice and seems to me to be merely a vendetta of the rightwing "security" establishment which is STILL oppressing the poor in Peru, including using a helicopter gunship to mow down Indigenous protestors (anti-gold mining) armed with spears or completely unarmed.

Here is a full and objective narrative of who Lori Berenson is and what she did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Berenson

It is an outrage that, after being released on parole, she's being sent back to prison.