Much Has Changed for an Inmate and a Nation.

[elleng]

When Lori Berenson was jailed in Peru on terrorism charges over 14 years ago, she was a fiery young leftist from New York enmeshed in a shadowy Marxist rebel group, stunning a war-weary nation with her clenched fists and defiant statements in support of revolution.

Now that Ms. Berenson, 40, has been granted parole from a women’s prison in Lima, Peru’s capital, both she and the nation that imprisoned her have changed in significant ways. Though her past still looms large, prison officials and fellow inmates now talk about her baking skills, her teaching music to cellmates and her devotion to her 1-year-old son, Salvador.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/world/americas/27peru.html?hp

[D-Lee]

1. Rec'ing this for her supportive family, which has really stuck by her nt