I can't add much from this article to my previous posts on Berenson. She has served the requirements of her sentence. She has apologized for the most part. She doesn't appear to be a threat to anyone. Let her fulfill the requirements of her parole and make the best of the rest of her life.
And I still don't think that she should be speaking to reporters (Peruvian or American) until her case has been resolved.
Reflecting on the challenges that await her, she said she often remembers a book she read in prison, “The Pig’s Deed,” a novel by the Argentine writer Marcos Aguinis. It is about the Spanish Inquisition as it unfolded in colonial Peru, focusing on the persecution of a doctor who acknowledged his Jewish origins.
“It’s very vivid in the way things continue in society,” said Ms. Berenson, reflecting on the fate of outcasts then and now. “I think the difference is, people who were accused of terrorism weren’t burned at the stake. I wonder if we had been, maybe we would be less interesting. I think for some reason it’s useful that people still be considered dangerous.”I'm not entirely sure what she means, but I don't think that comparing your plight to that of a Jewish doctor persecuted under the Spanish inquisition in colonial Peru helps your cause while your case is still in legal limbo.
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