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Visiting Peru’s Would-be Jews

Chan Chan is the world\’s largest mud city. Lying just outside the town of Trujillo, on Peru\’s northern coast, Chan Chan\’s high earthen walls feature pre-Columbian carvings paying tribute to the civilization\’s many gods.

Freedom for Lori Berenson

Franklin Roosevelt\’s remark that Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo \”may be an SOB, but he\’s our SOB\” is a reminder that defending universal human rights may be a good American party line, but it is somewhat tainted by the support given to loathsome regimes in Chile, Guatemala and South Africa. It\’s Lori Berenson\’s singular achievement that she has unwittingly injected Peru\’s Alberto Fujimori into that mix.Fujimori had crushed the Shining Path terrorists (not to be confused with Tupac Amaru) and destroyed the Peruvian drug trade. Yet his government has been sharply criticized by human rights organizations as well as by the State Department.

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