CUBAN SOLIDARITY CONGRESS
"There is no other way out exespt armed struggle in Latin America," This declaration was reported to have been made in Havana February 20 by Francisco Juliaéo. The leader of Brazil's Peasant Leagues has been visiting the capital of revolutionary Cuba since February 22.
"If an aggression were to occur on the part of imperialism," the Brazilian socialist reportedly added, "the popular masses would cise up with great violence and attack all United States property; and civil war would be unleashed, unless the governments tock the part of the people.”
Juliao announced that a moeting of a "continental Congress of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution" is in the planning stage. While an exact date has not yet been set "because of lack of co~ oxmiination anong the Brazilian and Latin-American organizations that defend the Cuban Revolution," the conference will be probably heid in April or Nay, Juliao said.
Aronce: prominent figures in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa who are expected to attend, Julido listed Bertrand RBEST§ , Lazaro Cardenas and Jean-Paul Sartre.
While Julido was in Havana, the Chinese News Agency Hsinhua rerorted that a viclent armed clash occurred recently between Land-~ less peasants and farnere in Sape, state of Paraiba, in northeast orazil where the Brazilian peasant leader has his main base.
Some time ago, according to the revort:. landless peasants in Sape seized the land of a locel letifundist named Adauto Gomes. They set up homes and began farming.
The owner, with the help of local authorities and other lendlords, drove the squatters off. But the peasants reorganized and came back in defiance of the landlords’ gang. in the fighting, wh > which lasted more than forty minutes, a landlord received wounds -. from which he later died.
At the request of the local Feasants' Teague, a member of the Chamber of Deputies went to the area to conduct an investigation. He supported the peasants. They were fully entitled, he said, to occupy land. left idle by the swners.
Vension arising from the armed clash still axtata in the area.
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