editors of Progres-
sive Worker.
Strangely enough, the imperialist
strategists on Wall Street and their
hirelings in the Pentagon haven't noticed
the revelation about Cuba being capital-
ist. Neither have the Cuban people, nor
the revolutionary vanguard in Latin Amer-
ica.
FRONTON
crowd in order by firing into the air...
"'There was no mutiny, nor any at-
tempt at mass escape; it was only a slight
incident,' an official assured us.
"Gamarra attacked one of the
guards, whose name was not revealed. The
sound of machine-gun fire awakened the
whole prison population. The prisoners
started a ruckus and made menacing ges-
tures at the policeman who had killed
their companion. The policeman had to be
protected by his colleagues...."
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‘Our Lima correspondent, March 31:°
"The story was quite different.
The prisoner was an insane person who wan-
dered into a forbidden zone to answer the
call of nature. He was riddled with bul-
lets in front of everybody. He didn't do
anything or say anything.
"You can imagine the atmosphere of
terror reigning in El Frontén. The papers
published only a few totally false lines.
"If those in command in El Frontén
want to liquidate Hugo Blanco, they can
do so without any scruple and no one
could interfere...His situation is very,
very dangerous..
-37°7-
THE BELGIAN ELECTIONS
By Ernest Mandel
[The following article has been translated by World Outlook from the April 6 issue of the Brussels weekly La Gauche. The original title is "Les plus mauvaises élections depuis 1'instauration du suffrage universel" (The worst election since the establishment of universal suffrage). The subtitles appear in the original. ]
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We entitled our analysis of the elections of May 23, 1965, "The Most Serious Defeat in the History of