AMNESTY FOR HUGO BLANCO PRESSED IN UNITED STATES
Defense work in the United States for imprisoned Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco was marked by meetings in Detroit and Cleveland, July 14 and 17, respectively.
The key speaker at the Detroit meeting was Halma Perry, a young Peruvian writer associated with the liberation struggle in Latin America.
She described the rising new generation of freedom fighters committed to total struggle against the system oppressing then.
James Griffin, of the Young Social-
ist Alliance, spoke on recent developments
in the Régis Debray case.
He also discussed the situation of
the Bolivian revolutionaries who have been
rounded up in recent mass arrests and are
now being held in disease-infested jungle
concentration camps (see World Outlook,
June 30).
The meeting in Cleveland was ad-
dressed by Ralph Levitt, with over 40
people in attendance. Copies of a letter
demanding that Blanco be spared a death
sentence were sent to Belaunde, the Su-
preme Military Council, and to Blanco's
lawyer.