still alive.
Bertrand Russell, in a separate declaration which appeared in the July 22 Marcha, a well-known radical Uruguayan weekly, called on Peruvian authorities to either release Lobatén or to hold a public trial.
Jacqueline Elau, who now lives in Cuba, stated at a press conference reported in the July 7 issue of the Cuban magazine Bohemia, that her belief was based on news from Peru on the activity in the guerrilla zone where her husband had operated as well as a statement made in parliament by the Peruvian deputy Mario Villardn that "Lobatén is alive and in jail in Puno."
She pointed out also that the only reports of Lobatén's fate have come from the Peruvian government and have been exceedingly contradictory -- for one thing claiming that his death occurred at five different places.
She noted that to date the Peruvian government has produced no concrete evidence of Lobaton's death.
Bertrand Russell said "The Peruvian deputy, Sefior Mario Villard&n has revealed in a sensational statement that the Peruvian resistance leader claimed dead for some time is in fact in a concentration camp.
"He asserted that Guillermo Lobatén has not been executed but that the Peruvian authorities are keeping him hidden and incommunicado."
The famous philosopher demanded justice for Lobatén: "Lobatén's isolation cannot continue and he must be given the right to consult lawyers of his own choice. If he is not set free, the charges against him must be made public.
"The Peruvian government must give an immediate and complete explanation to Deputy Villarén and to the rest of the world.
Appealing for an international investigation Russell declared:
"I ask for the right of habeas corpus for Guillermo Lobatén and that elected representatives and jurists of other countries cooperate to carry out a thorough investigation of the recent charge against the Peruvian government."
Guillermo Lobatén was a close associate of the deceased Peruvian guerrilla leader Iuis de la Puente Uceda and has been best known in the Latin-American revolutionary movement for his role as a leader of the MIR [Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionario -- Movement of the Revolutionary Left] guerrillas of the Tfipac Amaru Front in the central region of Peru.
Lobatén was forced to leave Peru in 1955 under the dictatorship of Manuel Odrfa while he was still a student.
In 1956, he wrote a pamphlet, "The Second Front," in which he envisaged a continent-wide struggle against imperialism in Latin America and spoke of the armed struggle road to revolution.
He became a strong supporter of the Cuban revolution while a scholarship student at leipsig. He visited Cuba, where he met Iuis de la Puente and later returned to Peru, joined the Fidelista party MIR and was editor of the MIR paper, Voz Rebelde [Rebel Voice].