IThe following appeal has been translated by Intercontinental Press from the June 1 issue of Combate, the newspaper of the Partido Obrero Revolucionario, the Bolivian section of the Fourth International.]
Ana María Villarreal de Santucho is a militant of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Revolutionary Workers party - the Argentinian section of the Fourth Internationall and of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo [Revolutionary Army of the People, the guerrilla organization sponsored by the PRIl, who was recently shot by the police, and who is being held in prison at present under the unconstitutional
Terrorist
Law.
This comrade was wounded and arrested while participating with a commando of the ERP in distributing foodstuffs, which had just been expro priated from a big capitalist, among the people of a slum in the city of Córdoba.
The circumstances and the way in which Ana Maria was wounded show the mentality and methods of the henchmen of the regime, since it occurred when she was leaving the scene of action and was defenseless.
The Argentine dictatorship considers Ana María Villarreal to be a dangerous criminal and terrorist. In reality she is a refined and generous revolutionary militant, who has dedicated her life to the cause of national liberation and the socialist revolution.
The circumstances under which she was wounded and arrested are the best proof of that. Some additional facts about her life are sufficient to destroy the repelling and false image 670
the new revolutionary generations are joining its ranks.
of her personality which the dictatorship wants to create.
Companera Ana María Villarreal de Santucho is a well-known sculptress, very active in the cultural field in the province of Salta and throughout northern Argentina both before and after she became a revolutionist.