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leader to a remote jungle camp called Ascensién de Guarayos in a region inhabited only by primitive tribes.
Dr. Gonz4lez thus shares the fate of other Trotskyist leaders like Guillermo Lora and most of the prominent figures of the left in Bolivia. Last January, Barrientos launched a new sweeping witch-hunt, the worst since he seized power. In raids in the main centers of Bolivia, leftists of all tendencies were seized by the political police and held incommunicado. Some were tortured.
Then, on the grounds of their political views, they were flown to remote military posts and left without food, without jobs, without resources, without medical care. To many of the deportees, the sentence signifies slow death.
This witch-hunt, which has been ignored by the capitalist press and many leftist journals, constituted the background for the arrest of Régis Debray and two other journalists, a case which has gained international attention because of the sensation it made in France where Debray's mother is a well-known political figure.
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