world," explains a blurb titled "More Profit in Taiwan" in a booklet put out by the Chiang Kai-shek gang in what it calls the "Republic of China."
Chief among the advantages listed for profitable investment in Taiwan is "abundant intelligent labor at wages lower than in Hong Kong or Japan." And,. it must be admitted, that is pretty low.
Other features foreign capitalists may find attractive are: no corporate income tax for five years; no sales or conmodity taxes on exports; no import duty on capital goods; and no limit on repatriation of profits.
HUGO BLANCO TELLS OF NEW REPRESSION IN PERU
{The following report on new repressions in Peru, containing information -from Hugo Blanco,. the imprisoned Peruvian peasant. leader, was released February 14 by the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners (USLA), in New York.]
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An urgent letter from Hugo Blanco in Peru's El Fronton prison has just been received by the USLA Justice Committee. Blanco describes how families of political prisoners are threatened by government expropriation of their lands and personal belongings. The authorities are trying to exact what they call “civil reparation" to the tune of 165,000 soles (US$#1= 26.82 soles). When you consider that the. per capita income in Peru is $115 per year and the only source for securing a livelihood for these innocent peasant families is the piece of land on which they raise their crops, the gravity of the attack becomes apparent.
The letter from Blanco serves to underline recent news from the CODDEH [Comité de Defense de los Derechos Humanos -- Committee for the Defensa of Human Rights], about a new wave of repression. Some incidents follow.
The brutal suppression of student activities; the arrest of student leader Ruffo Carcamo; and the demand of chief of
the PIP [Policia de Investigaciones del
Peri] to interrogate Hector Bejar about
a recent bank robbery. Hector Bejar has
been held prisoner for two years and
could not possibly have organized, still
less participated in a bank robbery. The
police want to get their hands on him to
liquidate him as a leading political
opponent of the regime.
The government's new attack is now
aimed at campesinos whose only crime is
kinship to people in opposition to the
present regime. The method of punishing
the families, or making them responsible
for the acts of their kin, brings back the
Nazi practice of exterminating whole vil-
lages because someone in the village
fought against the Nazis.
By taking away the land the Peru-
vian government knows it is condemning
these peasants to slow death through
starvation.
Hugo Blanco says in his letter: "I
believe if a wave of protest is raised,
the blow can be staved off. We trust in
you. it
In response to this letter the
USLA Justice Committee urges protest ac-
tion against the deepening witch-—hunt
and the punishment of innocent peasants
currently going on. Communications should
be sent to the president of the Republic,
Fernando Belatinde Terry, Lima, Peru.
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