BOLIVIAN DICTATOR OUTLAWS LEFTIST PARTIES
The Barrientos dictatorship outlawed the Communist and Workers Revolutionary parties April 11, citing the recent "clashes" with guerrillas. However, last January, long before the reports of wide-scale guerrilla operations, Barrientos rounded up all the leaders of leftist parties he could find and deported them to remote villages where they face death from starvation and illness.
"WAVERING ABOUT
SHOOTING ME"
[The following letter was sent by Hugo Blanco to the French Committee of Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in peru. The translation is by World Outlook.
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Your militant stand, along with other voices from all over the world, has dismayed the assassins of our people. iInperialism and its lackeys are wavering about shooting me. They understand that their crimes against Peru are being watched and condemned by world opinion.
It is their fear of the people struggling to win liberation that impels them to unleash brutal repressions; and it is their fear of this same people, together with resolute international soli-
"WITH THE SOLIDARITY OF
[The following letter was written by Hugo Blanco to be read at a solidarity meeting in his behalf April 10 in Paris. The translation is by World Outlook. ]
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The repression in Peru and throughout Latin America is mounting. It represents a desperate effort by Yankee imperialism and the local exploiters to stamp out the revolutionary process set in motion in the whole continent by the great Cuban revolution. We have joined the liberation struggle undertaken by our Asian and African brothers; we have resolved no longer to be colonies.
The armed peasants of Guatemala, struggling consciously and openly for a workers and peasants government and for socialism; the Venezuelan guerrillas fighting heroically; the Colombians persisting in their struggle; the armed Dominican people confronting the marines; the Agrarian Revolution inaugurated by the Peruvian peasantry; likewise the heroic sacrifices of the guerrilla groups in Peru -- all these revealing facts form part of the same process, the Latin-American revolution for national liberation and socialisn.
Yankee imperialism and its accomplices, the Latin-American exploiters, are terrified at seeing their end approaching and are dealing bloody blows against our peoples.
Massacres are their favorite meth-— od and have been an outstanding feature of the most recent governments in Peru;
darity, that is staying their murderous
hand. Your support has the greatest im-
portance for our people. It shows that
victory is near, that we are not alone in
this struggle.
It is of immense encouragement to
the fighters and gives us added faith
each day in the sureness of victory and
redoubles our resolution.
; We are certain that your action
will swell international solidarity, our
strength will grow apace and we will
soon be victorious.
Fraternally,
Hugo Blanco
El Frontén Penal Island
February 18, 1967
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