VoL. 5, No. 2 January 6, 1967
PROMINENT MEXICAN LEFTISTS APPEAL FOR HUGO BLANCO
In a strongly worded cablegram sent to the Peruvian government December 16, eighty-eight prominent figures in the Mexican radical movement indicated their support for the campaign to secure an immediate amnesty for Hugo Blanco.
Among the signers were Manuel Marcue Pardinas, editor of the magazine Politica; Arnaldo Reynal, editor of Siglo XXI; Victor Rico Galan, the well-known journalist now a political prisoner in Mexico City; Mario Menéndez Rodriguez, editor of Sucesos; Renato Leduc, a well-known journalist and columnist; Eduardo Jardon Arzate, editor of Prensa Latina; Enrique Semo, editor of Historia y Sociedad; Ram6én Danzos Palomino, Secretary General of the Central Campesina Independiente; Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo, secretary general of the Mexican Communist party; Margaret Randall, poet and publisher of
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El Corno Emplumado; and Carlos Alcazar, editor of Perspectiva Mundial. -
The text of the cablegram was as follows:
"Architect Fernando Belatinde Terry
"President of the Republic of Peru
"Presidential Palace
"Lima, Peru
"We beg you to stop unspeakable attempt to shoot leader Peruvian peasants
Hugo Blanco and grant amnesty to all political prisoners your government."
A copy of the cablegram was delivered to the Peruvian embassy in Mexico City.