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From International Socialist Review, Vol.23 No.1, Winter 1962, p.2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Those who missed Joe Hansen in our recent issues can rest assured that he is on the job: Joe, who is one of our editors and the editor of The Militant, has for several months been giving on-the-spot coverage of explosive current events in Latin America. He will return soon and you will be able to hear him tell his story in person.
Hansen is presently filling The Militant’s pages with vivid accounts of strikers battling Colombian troops; the Ecuador general strike and downfall of the Velasco tyranny; Peruvian police shooting down strikers; bitter street battles in Bolivia.
Joe will give to American audiences a better look at the “Alliance for Progress” and what Latin Americans think of it. He’ll explain why Frondizi and other Yankee puppets are reluctant to openly prepare and sponsor an invasion of Cuba.
His years in Mexico as secretary to Leon Trotsky, a long acquaintance with the Latin American Press and his leading role in the American labor and socialist movement give the Hansen story unusual authority. A trip to Cuba in 1960 produced two excellent pamphlets, The Truth About Cuba and In Defense of the Cuban Revolution.
Individuals or organizations interested in arranging public meetings for Joseph Hansen are invited to write for information about subjects, fees and possible dates: ISR, 116 University Pl., New York 3, N.Y.
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