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U.S. woman leaving Peru after 20-year sentence for aiding rebels (Lori Berenson)
Reuters on Yahoo News ^ | 12/1/15 | Marco Aquino

Posted on 12/01/2015 1:18:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge

LIMA (Reuters) - Lori Berenson, a New Yorker once jailed in Peru for helping Marxist insurgents, is returning to the United States with her six-year-old son after finishing a 20-year sentence, her lawyer said Tuesday.

Berenson, 46, was making preparations to leave Peru "in coming hours," said Anibal Apari, her attorney and the father of her son. He declined to be more specific.

Apari and Berenson met in prison in 1997. He was also an inmate at the time.

Berenson was on parole for the past 5 years after spending 15 years in prison.

In 1996, Berenson was found guilty of supporting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA, a guerilla group active in the 1980s and 90s. She was never convicted of participating in violent acts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aiding; leaving; loriberenson; peru; rebels
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1 posted on 12/01/2015 1:18:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Just in time to be Bernie Sanders’ running mate.


2 posted on 12/01/2015 1:19:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge

said Anibal Apari, her attorney and the father of her son. He declined to be more specific -

that is quite specific enough


3 posted on 12/01/2015 1:19:48 PM PST by Jolla
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quite specific. especially as the child is six and she was on parole 5 years ago.


4 posted on 12/01/2015 1:23:34 PM PST by BJ1
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To: Jolla

How do you have a six year old kid when you are serving a 20 year sentence? Maybe Peruvian prisons aren’t so bad a place after all.


5 posted on 12/01/2015 1:24:32 PM PST by henkster
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To: NormsRevenge

She looks a helluva lot older than 46. Prison life in Peru must be really rough. I wonder if briefly playing revolutionary was worth it?


6 posted on 12/01/2015 1:26:00 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: NormsRevenge
Apari (husband) and Berenson met in prison in 1997. He was also an inmate at the time.

What? They got coed prisons?

7 posted on 12/01/2015 1:26:08 PM PST by umgud
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To: NormsRevenge

I guess the White House invitation is not far behind ...


8 posted on 12/01/2015 1:28:15 PM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I remember when that happened. Mr. Mercat and I have been to Peru and have family connections there. She was quite a cutie at the time. For some reason I’m surprised she served as long a sentence as she did.


9 posted on 12/01/2015 1:30:11 PM PST by Mercat
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To: NormsRevenge

A Rachel Corrie wannabe.


10 posted on 12/01/2015 1:36:02 PM PST by Obadiah (Jeb! Because America needs more cowbell.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Why would she come back here?

If she likes Marxism so much, shouldn’t she go to Cuba?


11 posted on 12/01/2015 1:36:35 PM PST by fruser1
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she looks terrible for 46. If I remember her story correctly, she was a real nutcase and I think her parents were too. There is no way to know if she ever learned her lesson.


12 posted on 12/01/2015 1:37:59 PM PST by midnightcat
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Why would she come back here?

If she likes Marxism so much, shouldn’t she go to Cuba?


Maybe she likes the way things have “progressed” here, in the last 20 years. Who knows?


13 posted on 12/01/2015 1:38:46 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: dfwgator

LOL


14 posted on 12/01/2015 1:42:30 PM PST by nopardons
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I’m sure she had good intentions. But so do many members of ISIS.

They should have shot her.


15 posted on 12/01/2015 1:42:36 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (Cruz / West 2016)
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To: Mercat
2000

2015


16 posted on 12/01/2015 1:44:27 PM PST by newfreep (TRUMP/Cruz 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: NormsRevenge
Berenson will end up in Raqqa within a 180 days.

5.56mm

17 posted on 12/01/2015 1:47:16 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: TexasRepublic

I’ve seen Peru prisons on the show Locked Up Abroad.

More of a communal affair. Definitely no luxury cells there.


18 posted on 12/01/2015 1:50:13 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Why would she come back here?

Because the gay Caliph in the White House is to the left of her on the political spectrum.

19 posted on 12/01/2015 1:50:46 PM PST by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: NormsRevenge

This malignant little maoist will shortly have lifetime tenured professorship at some university.


20 posted on 12/01/2015 1:59:21 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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