pamphlet on Hugo Blanco has just been published in Toronto under the auspices of Robert McCarthy, who heads a committee seeking amnesty for all the political prisoners in Peru.
The pamphiet consists of remarks made by two participants at a solidarity meeting in behalf of the Peruvian peasant leader who was placed under threat of death when he appealed a savage 25-year sentence in the notorious penal island of El Fronté6n.
Kenneth Golby of the Spanish department at York University gives the main facts about the now world-famous case.
Andre Gunder Frank, visiting professor in economics at Sir George Williams University, goes into the economic and social background in Latin America which continually fosters revolutionary protest movements like the one headed by Hugo Blanco. Some of the most interesting parts of his speech deal with the foreign policy of the U.S. in Latin America, particularly its efforts to maintain and build up the most reactionary nilitary wing forces.
The present intense concern of the American imperialists over revolutionary developments in Latin America is motivated in part, he says, by their realization that they’ "cannot afford very many Vietnams...It is important for them...to have Asians fight Asians as long as they can be made to, to have Latin Americans fight Latin Americans as long as possible."
The pamphlet costs 30 cents (or 4 for #1) and can be obtained from Robert McCarthy, Massey College, 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Canada.