FRENCH-CANADIAN JOURNAL FEATURES HUGO BLANCO CASE
Montréal
The April 29 issue of La Presse, the biggest French-language daily newspaper in Canada, carried an article on Hugo Blanco that took up about a half page in the final section.
The article, an entirely favorable one, reports the sending of a petition, carrying 7,500 names, mostly unionists, to the Peruvian embassy in Ottawa, asking for the release of the famous class-war prisoner. The signatures were collected in two weeks and more are still coming in.
The article reports the worldwide campaign of solidarity in behalf of Hugo Blanco, summarizing facts presented in many issues of World Outlook.
The author, Jogues Girard, also goes into the social and economic conditions in Peru that gave rise to the revolutionary peasant movement headed by the young Trotskyist.
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