APPEARS IN BUENOS AIRES
The first issue of a Bulletin published by the Peruvian FIR [Frente de Izquierda Réevolucionario] has just appeared in Buenos Aires. The Bulletin, edited by the Committee of Foreign Relations of the FIR, contains instructive information. Among the items are the following:
(1) Peru has 165 political prisoners, the most prominent being Hugo Blanco, 286 in provisional liberty and twenty exiled,
(2) Peasant occupations of the land are continuing. The peasants of Rfo Huallaga took over a considerable area of land on September 2. During the same month, 2,000 conmmundlists of Yanacocha occupied 900 hectares Lone hectare = 2.47 acres] in Huaratambo, At Huaylacucho four haciendas Llarge estates] were taken over, At Huancay 3,000 conminalists invaded the Moro
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hacienda, a holding of the imperialist company Cerro de Pasco, They occupied 500 hectares of the property. At Yacta, cammunalists, shouting, "Land or death!" occupied the Corpacancha hacienda.~ Police killed Adrian M. Hidalgo. In the north of Peru peasants seized the Huabal estate and some others in the district of Canchaqui, Other occupations took place at Jauga, Puno. re
(3) Peasants of the Cuzco region held a big meeting in September . favoring occupation of the land. They carried placards bearing photographs -of Hugo Blanco, The Federacién de Estudiantes [Federation of Students] organized a "March on the Palace" to demand release of the prisoners.
(4) A group of political and intellectual figures of the left in Argentina sent President Belatinde a telegram asking for freedom for Hugo. Blanco and a general amnesty. The telegram was signed by Silvio Frondizi, Moner Sanz, Latendorf, Ernesto Sdbato, Carlos Astrada, Vinas, Falotta, ‘Tieffemberg, Marcos Kaplan, and others. .