In an editorial on the above letter 44 the following to say (for space reasons we reproduce extracts only):
After giving sone of the factual details, that the robbory took place in a suburb of Lima, during tie election campaign (which had’ as its conclusion the takeover by the military) and that something like $100,000 had been stolen, it says:
"23 of the participants sent a letter, which was mailed from Rio de Janeiro, to the well-known Lima newspaper, Expresso, admitting the deed and explaining that it was a political act; the money being destined for guerilla fighters...The 3 participants.....were young engineoring students with brilliant scholastic records. They said that they belonged to a revolutionary organisaticn named Tupac Amaru in honor of the herioc Cuzco Indian who led a rebellion of 70,000 against the Spaniards in 1780. By the time the their letter appeared, they added, they would be safe in Colombia. However, it turned out that they were still in Peru and the police managed to locate them. In Cuzco, in the heart of the peasant area, the police alsa arrested others, charging them with invOlvement. Front page stories said that 424,000 soles (about $16,300) wore recovered when this group was taken into