The following appeal was made by Hugo Blanco In Mexico City Sept. 19. It is reprinted from the Sept. 27 Intercontinental Press.
At tbe beginning of this month, tire Peruvian teaching profession, orga nized in the Federacion Nacional de Educadores del Peru [National Federation of Educators], initiated a strike of national rope in answer to the ro misal of the government to mprove their precarious living conditions, conCOES GONE CONTEN vividly with the opulence in which the military lives. In spite of the efforts of the reaction BESIOTECH and the government the strike movement was growing strong er day by day, supported an it was by the students, their parents, and broad sectors of the population.
The military junta, frightened at the dimensions of the movement, opled for a repression and violently broke up the teachers' demonstrations, jail. ing hundreds of teachers, shidents, and workers. Finally, the junte announced that they had deported various persons, including student and faculty strike leaders and myself.
1 have been deported to Mexico, where fortunately I have been given Dermission to reside as a "Visitante"
visitorl, but 1 am ignorant of the fate of the rest of my "deported" colleagues, The press Could it be that the Peruvian government has killed them? Are they heni rating before carrying out the deed?
An a revolutionist and an a PeruLien l em worried sboul the lale o my friends, I demand that the Peruvian government inform the world an to what they have done with theme students and strike leaders they say they bave deported.
1 appeal to the student and political organizations, the unions, and the intellectuale who have in the past been able to stay the murderous hand of the military to mobilize once again in defense of Peruvians whose lives are in danger. This is a matter of the most exiteme urgency. Immediate action in called for to achieve the liberaton and the safely of these fighters.