WINGS MOVE TO LEFT IN LATIN AMERICA
' SANTIAGO, Chile -- The Communist parties in Latin America con= tinue to manifest further differentiations as a result of the Sino- Soviet conflict. At the end of January, a split occurred in the © Peruvian Communist party. The pro-Chinese majority defeated the old revisionist. Leader Jorge del Prado and general secretary Rath ‘Acosta.
Saturnino Paredes, secretary of the new Communist organization declared that a "hard" line will be followed, with strong support for the Cuban Revolution, They have broken with’ Belatnde, president of Peru, who was supported by the pro-Khrushchev wihg.
jue Journal. of the new Communist party is Bandera: Roja [Red
The new split follows a similar one several years ago which led to the formation of a Marxist-Leninist group that is now working tooot. with _ Trotskyists in the FIR [Frente de Taquierda Revolusion~
-In Argentina, various groups have split away from the Codovila leadership as a result of the Sino-Soviet conflict. One group is led by Juan Carlos Portantiero, Another in the province of Cordoba is headed by José Aric6, It publishes a magazine called Pasado y Presente [Past and Present]. Another small group, but one that has a most progressive revolutionary Communist line is functioning in Buenos Aires, It is called the "Recabarren" group.
The new Communist party of Brazil which broke from the old leadership headed by Luis Carlos Prestes in 1962 has grown to include thousands of membors, It is now calling for the "formation of a united front of all the revolutionary forces," __ Ce
The party has been campaigning in recent issues of its newspaper
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for the release of Hugo Blanao, the Peruvian Trotskyist peasant Lead= er imprisoned at Arequipa.