IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Death threats to Hugo Blanco

Socialist Challenge No. 242, 21 April 1982 · p. 16 of the scan · 210 words

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each 12 month inland subscription to PO Box 50, London N1. 'Cammando de Derecha Blanca' life of Hugo Blanco.

In 1978, this terrorist organisation kidnapped two far-left militants and reporter Robert Fanjul. same twenty men with machine guns attempted to kidnan Hugo Blanco but failed because prompt action by his comrades.

Those were kidnapped Sated they had been tortured in a Tilled y camp. Tc carcal. against Hugo Blanco obtrom organisation linked to the military and the governLicite ON 16 MARCH the Peruvian newspaper La Republica received a death threat from the - the right wing death squads organisation - against the Blanco has for nearly 40 years been a workers' leader in Peru and a militant ot the rourth interna. tional. Today he is also an elected deputv in the Peruvian parliament. few months ago he was brutally beaten up by the police while leading a demonstration and the high-ranking police officers who openly admitted their action and justified received sanction from the government.

Socialist Challenge appeals to all its supporters, sympathisers and friends to get resolutions condemning the threats against the of Hugo Blanco sent President Fernando Belaunde ture issue Lima, Peru. future of Socialist Challenge will Coral me o maker about the threats and the

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