MEXICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
SPEAK UP FOR HUGO BLANCO
_ [The January 1 issue of the Mexican biweekly magazine Politica, which appeared on the Mexico City newsstands January 16, carried a letter to the editor from a number of political prisoners demanding the immediate release of Hugo Blanco and other political prisoners in Peru. The letter, translated by World Outlook, is as follows: ]
Mr. Editor:
The revolutionary political prisoners of the Preventive Prison of Mexico City, Wards "M" and "I," denounce the Peruvian government's intention to shoot the peasant leader Hugo Blanco and his comrades in prison as part of a repressive plan of imperialism and the Latin-American bourgeoisie against the revolutionary movements of the exploited peoples of the entire continent. The counterrevolutionary repression in Mexico and our imprisonment, as well as the repressions and political assassinations in Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and other countries constitute part of this plan. All these repressions have failed and will continue to fail in their effort to contain the struggles of the exploited masses against imperialism and capitalism.
We demand the immediate release of Hugo Blanco, Pedro Candela, Héctor Béjar and other guerrillas, workers and peasants imprisoned in Peru and we appeal to the democratic and revolutionary forces to denounce and repudiate the attempt to “legally" murder Hugo Blanco, with whom we express our solidarity.
Ward "M" Ward "I"
Bonifacio Pérez Herndndez Adolfo Gilly
Carlos Aguilera Delgadillo Gildardo Islas Carranza
Fausto Davila Solis , Leocadio Zapata M.
Gilberto Balam Pereyra Oscar Fern4ndez Bruno
Gumersindo Gémez Cuevas Ramén Vargas
Genaro Jonguitud Lara
Gonzalo Santill4n Esquivel
Isaias Rojas Delgado
José Navarro Lépez .
Miguel Cruz Ruiz
Oliverio Juan Pérez Galicia
Rolf Meiners Huebner
Ratil Ugalde Alvarez
Tito Armando Dominguez Lara