WORLD BEHIND US"
Belatinde has broken the record. They have
massacred peasants, workers, students,
and the spectators at a soccer game.
Murders without trial, like that
of Fabricio Ojeda and those in Santo Do-
mingo, abound in Peru; it suffices to
mention, among many, the revolutionists
Heraud, De La Puente, Zapata and Vallejos.
As in our brother countries, the
number of political-social prisoners is
rising day by day, despite Belainde's
cynical claim that there are none.
Now they have decided to camou-
flage their murders with "legal" farces.
For a starter, they are setting the
stage for my "execution" with great en-
thusiasn.
The whole world knows who is di-
recting the "Alliance for Progress" of
the repression; it is the same ones who
are organizing through their "escalation"
the greatest crime of genocide in his-
tory; it is those who are using human
science to exterminate our Vietnamese
brothers. Latin America is already suf-~
fering from these Yankee "escalations."
We, the peoples of Peru and of all
Latin America, who for centuries have
suffered from the "escalation" of hunger,
the "escalation" of illiteracy, the "es-
calation" of tuberculosis, anemia, rick-
ets, and so many other “escalations"
which our local exploiters and the impe-
rialists have inflicted upon us -- we are
ready to face this "escalation" of re-
pression! We know that this one will be
the last, the final one, and that we will
win in a death struggle "made in the USA" with their own escalation.
In this struggle against death, in this struggle for the lives of our Asian, African and Latin-American peoples, we need the support, the solidarity of all men on earth; when this solidarity reaches the level of the best days of revolutionary internationalism, the end of imperialism will have arrived.
persons have scored the "death penalty"
asked for by the military prosecutor.
expressions of solidarity
have come from all parts of the world,
and we know that they are multiplying
and growing. Every voice raised in our
defense renews the spirit of the Peru-
vian fighters. With the solidarity ot the
world behind us, not even the threat of
death can halt our sure march toward to-
The French vanguard understands tal victory. fully the great role allotted to the country of "the Commune" in this drama of world importance. Proof of this is the activity of the Committee of Solidarity with the Victims of Repression in Peru and the way organizations and private
With warm fraternal greetings,
Hugo Blanco
El Frontén Penal Island
March 1967
HUGO BLANCO REPORTED IN PRISON HOSPITAL
A UPI dispatch from Lima dated April 7, which appeared in the New York Spanish-language daily El Tiempo,