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You are right. That behavior on the behalf of the Peruvian Gvt. does not make sense. If she helped to plan the raid on the embassy then she should have been dealt with much more severely in the first place. Shame on Peru for dealing with her crimes so lightly. But if she did pose as a reporter to gather information to be used in an attack on an embassy, then 20 years is not an unreasonable sentence. It is not the same as blowing up a building full of people. It is exactly the same as helping someone blow up a building full of people. One death or a hundred, murder is murder.

I am sorry, but I do not consider the kidnapping of diplomats to be an attempt at revolution. It is terrorism, plain and simple. Even if the cause is just does that justify the means?

Here is a question. Do you think this woman may be sacrificing herself for the cause? Is she making things difficult for herself so that her cause will gain sympathy and international publicity. If that is so should the US government be playing along?