For Revolutionary Group, an All-Out Offensive Turns Into Disastrous Defeat

By James Brooke

After 20-year sentence in Peru, New Yorker Lori Berenson comes home

New Yorker Lori Berenson returns to her hometown from Peru after serving a 20-year sentence for supporting the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Jillian Kitchener reports.

By REUTERS

Hostages Taken in Peru

Review of situation in Lima, Peru, where members of Tupac Amarau Revolutionary Movement took hundreds of people hostage at residence of Japanese Ambassador (S)y

Peru Resumes Contacts With Rebels Holding 74

Peruvian officials resume talks with guerrillas holding 74 hostages in Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima (S)

Crisis Attracts Readers to Web

Hostage crisis in Peru involving Tupac Amaru guerrillas attracts hundreds of computer users to Web site devoted to case of Lori Helene Berenson, American jailed in Peru for helping guerrillas; site, compiled by her family and friends, presents her side of case and calls for fair trial (S)

World Briefing | Americas: Peru: Berenson Release Weighed

Lori Berenson, 35-year-old American woman who was sentenced in 2001 to 20 years in prison for helping Tupac Amaru rebels fight Peruvian government, is awaiting decision of Inter-American Court of Human Rights on her appeal; holds that evidence against her is invalid (S)

By Juan Forero (NYT)

Peru Frees American Held Since 1995

Lori Berenson, the 40-year-old New Yorker who spent the last 15 years in prison in Peru, was paroled.

By Simon Romero

Peru Continues Talks With Marxist Guerrillas

Peruvian Government and Marxist Tupac Amaru guerrillas continue talks to end siege at Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima, where rebels have been holding 72 hostages since December '96 (S)

Waiting for Justice in Peru