Revolutionaries often seize things: contents of bank vaults, armamonts etc. Twice in recent years ships have been hi—jacked by opponents of corrupt ‘ dictatorial regimes. The incident this week in Venezuela recalls the seizure s two year ago of the Portuguese liner Santa Maria in the Caribbean by Fortuguess ’ and Spaniards opposed to Franco and Salazar. The motive behind the current incident is ransome. A radio message has been sent by the rebels offering to return the 3,127 tons freighter if political prisoners in Venezuela are roleased.
Other revolutionaries have been active in Caracas itself when on February the 14th, a high-powered bomb was exploded in a large warehouse. In another part of the sity according to a Reuter report police surrounded a group of armed terrorists who are holding two policemen as hostages in the gardens of an observatory, In Peru, Venezuela, and throughout latin—imerica, available newsindicates that the days of the U.S.<sponsored dictators are severely numbered, and that before more years have passed, we shall see them going the inevitable way of Batista.