A canditate for the Presidency startled the Peruvian Senate by thundering, "Che Guevara has fallen, a hundred others are ready to take his place, this is not my planning but the force of history!" (This followed the lament of the "Young Christian Democrats" and the reactionaries attack on them).
He continued: "There are men like Guevara, who have different ideas for Latin America, and who are capable, not only of leaving their professions (Che was a doctor of medicine), families and even triumphs already gained to start again the fight of a Quixote. "Can we really say that the soldiers, officers and even leaders have really been defending our country?—or were they merely instruments of oligarchical groups who in all Latin American countries have taken advantage of their political power, to entrench their own selfish interests. "No, Mr. President! No real hero of ours was ever knowingly a servant or instrument of the "oligarchy!! They were heroes who gave their lives without knowing that the land they fought for was going to be fleeced by the very rich. All this is happening again to the simple soldiers - peasants brought from the distant jungle and mountains and given a uniform (cannon fodder). Do these poor men who die fighting their brothers have anything in common with the ruling oligarchy? — No! "Those Peruvian police who died in guerrilla warfare (against Hugo Blancos, Ricardo Gadeas and Lobatons) as well as the many men who died fighting freedom fighters in Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia are people who have not been fighting for their own interests, but on orders which merely enriched the rich." This report was translated from La Prensa,lima and sent in ty the Secretary of "The Committee for Solidarity with the Victims of Repression cf Peru."