reported that Hugo Blanco has been taken to the prison hospital, gravely ill.
prison island 'El Frontén,' is suffering
from a grave lung ailment.
"Blanco won fame during 1962 and
1963 when, at the head of leftist guer-
rillas in the tropical Andean region of
The dispatch, which has not been Cuzco, he killed three policemen. confirmed by friends of the Peruvian peasant leader, is as follows:
"LIMA, April 7 (UPI) -- The Peruvian guerrilla Hugo Blanco, who is serving a 25-year sentence in the nearby
"A military tribunal of the police
forces condemned him to 25 years in prison.
It was officially announced that Blanco is
under medical care in the prison hospital."
PAMPHLET ON HUGO BLANCO
A 16-page