The cells have no light. She was an organizer for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. She lived in El Salvador during the early 1990s and worked with the popular movement there. A year ago, Berenson moved to Peru, planning to write about the conditions of poor women. Shouting to be heard above her captors, she bravely expressed her solidarity with the popular struggle.
Nobody can deny that in Peru there is much injustice.
There is institutionalized violence that has killed the people's best sons and daughters and has condemned children to die of hunger. If it is a crime to worry about the subhuman conditions in which the majority of the population lives, then I will accept my punishment. The MRTA are not criminal terrorists. She has told us from the beginning that she doesn't want to separate herself from the rest of the group. The Berenson case shows that the struggle continues in Peru.