DEFENSE COMMITTEE FOR MEXICAN WITCH-HUNT VICTIMS
A committee has been founded to aid the political victims of the Mexican government. Its immediate concern is the case of the fourteen prisoners of the sensational government witch-hunt which began July 19.
{For further details on this case see pages 758-759, and World Outlook, August 11, 1967, pages 715-727.]
The founding of the Mexican Political Prisoners Defense Committee was announced on August 9 in the Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Mexico. A provisional coordinating committee was elected at the same time.
Most of the participants in the committee at this time are students, since the immediate occasion for the conmmittee's formation is the "Case of the Fourteen," nine of whom are students.
The committee's intent, however, is to extend its field of activity as widely as possible, involving many radical and progressive organizations. It will defend all political prisoners in Mexico regardless of their ideological convictions.
The committee is distributing a statement by the fourteen arrested in the guerrilla "plot" case with a description of their backgrounds and the treatment they have been getting in prison.
Until the committee has its own address, correspondence should be directed to Perspectiva Mundial, Apartado Postal 27-509, Mexico 7, D.F., with the note "para el Comité."
GUATEMALAN