CAMPAIGN IN ARGENTINA -FOR HUGO
BLANCO
The campaign in behalf of Hugo Blanco is being renewed on an extended scale in Argentina, according to the January 30 issue of the Buenos Aires weekly La Verdad. Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian peasant leader was given a 25-year sentence in the notorious El Front6n prison and then threatened with death when he appealed the savage sentence. At present he has gained a temporary respite. This, however, is uncertain and the judges of the Supreme Council of Military Justice in Lima could decide at any time to place him before a firing squad.
In Argentina a Provisional Commission for the Freedom of Hugo Blanco [Comisién Provisoria por la Libertad de Hugo Blanco] reports a preliminary list of well-known figures and organizations backing an appeal to the Peruvian authorities not to execute Hugo Blanco. The list is as follows:
Alejandro Gomez, Luis Franco, Abraham Abdulajah, Doctor Manuel- Sadovsky, Doctor Silvio Frondizi, Manuel Torreiro, Jolin William Cooke, Leandro Fote, Cérdova Iturburu, Alberto Hidalgo, Rolando Garcia, Alvaro Yunque, José Alonso, Edmundo E. Eichelbaun, Maria Rosa Oliver, Alba Mujica, Lautaro Murta.
Asociacién Obrera Textil, Comisién Directiva de SOEME [Sindicato de Obreros y Empleados del Ministerio de Educacién], Agrupacién El Activista de la Carne (Berisso), Sindicato de la Publicidad (Federacién Nacional), ATE (la Plata), various student organizations in Buenos Aires and elsewhere, the "62 Organizaciones de Pié," Nuestra Palabra (organ of the Argentine Communist party).
CHILEAN