Francisco Juliao, the wellknown peasant leader was arrested June 4 at a farm in Sao Gabriele in the State of Goias where he was disguised as an agricultural worker,
The founder of Brazil's famous Peasant Leagues was a deputy in’ the Pernambuco parliament. The counterrevolutionary Castello Branco regime, which seized-power through a coup dtétat, listed Francisco Juligxo on April 10 among those whose civil rights were to be arbitrarily cancelled, and. he went into hiding.
The peasant leader was taken to federal headquarters of the political police in Brasilia,
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NEGRO PARTY WINS PLACE ON MICHIGAN BALLOT
By Evelyn Sell
The all-Negro Freedom Now party has won a place on the Michigan state ballot, The party was officially certified on May 28 after election officials carefully checked their qualifying petitions, Dedicated party members collected a total of 21,726 signatures (almost 7,000 more than the legal requirement) in order to