More esncouraging events in Latin America have boen received this week, About twenty thousand Colombian peasants belonging to five thousand households have recently ssised farmland in tha northern part of Valle del Cauca province and other places, according to a report published in the Colombian weekly Voz De La Demceeracia, They have absolutely resist ed police suppression. The report says that the peasants have been in dire need of land not only for oultivation but also for biiding houses, At the end of January, land s@isures wore reported in the provinces of Tolima and Meta and in the city of Tulua in Valle del Cauca province,
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A complate ovarhaul of the "Alliance for Progrsss" was demanded Feb. 3 in @ raport placed bafors U.%. Seeratary of Gommerce luther H. Hodges by some of the key figures of America's sixty ruling families The Alliances for Progress was initiated undar Zisenhower as the U.5. answer to Fidel Castro, It was touted es offering all of Latin imerica a peaceful, easy way to get what ths Gubans found thay could win only through revolution. Kennedy baptized the plan, giving it its attractive name just a faw wasks befors the counterrevolutionary Cuban invasion force was landed at Playa Giron by tho Pantagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and John F. Kennedy portonally.
The alliances for Progtese has spoken of two billion dollars a year for twenty ysars for Latin Amorica's davelopmont. somehow tha program has never esemed able to get off ths -round, The orerhaoul now danandsd would most suraly atart the dollars flowin, But not in the direction of the poor man's pocket in Latin Amoriva. Private enterpriss and privats invastment mat bo~mads “the main thrust of the Alliance," says the report submitted to Secratary Hodges. And who aro the mystarious figures hiding behind the labal of "private onterpriss and privats invostment'? “sg tay .wosr this from the names signed at thse bottom of the domand for an overhaul:
David Rocks. fsller, chairman —- Chass ‘ianhattan Bank of New York,
“milio G Tollado, vica prasident - Stendard 011 Co. (New Jarcey)
Valter B. Vriston, executive vices president —- First National Clty Bank of New York.
The report of the threo was endorasd by J. Petar Gracs, presi‘iant of W.R.Grace & Co., and head of a committss to which all four belon,, aponsored by the Dapartment of Commerce. These men Speak for the inner offices in the countirig houses of lowar Manhattan.
Grace declarsd in a latter to liockofeller, which has made public that “The program in its present form cannot sucuesd, and we ara in ersat danver of euffsring a major defsat to our strategic interests in this hemisphors... I have never been so deoeply disturbed about a major aspact of United States fTorsign policy.” Can they overhaul the illianes for Prograss so that it will finally taka off, provide more billions for Wall Strast, and still serve as an affective counter to the example and appoal of ths ‘uban Revolution #7
On 14/2/63 tha organization of VYenozuelan students in Chile published a statomont praising ths haroic action of a group of Venesuslan Patriots in soigsing ths Fraighter "Angoatesui", The atatoment also protasted against U.S. intarvantion in Vonsauelan internal affairs. It was raperted that the fraighter was: now being searched for by the Venszuelan Naval Authoritiss with the halp of U.8, naval planes. The statement said that this patriotis aotion was aimod at drawing world attantion.to.th> missrable pliszht of the Vanoezuelan people undar Fascist Dictatorship. Tha student organization, in ata resolution adopted hora today, appsaled to the Uhilesan pacple to voice their support for the Vanozuelan patriots.