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Dolores Ibarruri, “‘La Pasionaria”, exiled from her native Spain for 38
years, has again taken her rightful ‘place i in the active political life of the
country, addressing various meetings and rallies including a mass rally
of 20,000 in the Basque city of Bilbao where the newly-legalized
Communist Party of Spain opended its election drive. Here, with her
daughter Amaia, she boards a plane in Moscow, — bound for Madrid.

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Chilean youth leader tells
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Gladys Marin, exiled general
secretary of the Young Communist
League of Chile, has, for a year
now, carried on the search for her
husband who has been held in-
communicado by his fascist jailers
since his arrest last May. She told
the story — as yet unfinished — of
that search during a recent three-
week tour of the U.S.

My husband, Jorge Munoz, was
arrested by DINA agents (the
Chilean junta’s secret police) a
year ago, on May 4. With him they
arrested Mario Zamorano, Uhdar-
ico Donaire, Jaime Donato and
Elisa Escobar.

DINA agents had staked out the
house in Santiago where they were
arrested, No. 1587 Conferencia
Street, since April 30.

A couple, Juan Becerra and
Angelina Gutierrez, witnessed the
arrest and the beating received by

* my husband and his comrades at

the hands of the DINA agents.
Mario Zamorano, who was shot
during the arrest, was taken, along
with Jorge, to the Central Post
Office. We learned later that Jorge
had then been taken to the FACH
(Chilean Air Force) hospital and
rotated later through several
concentration camps — from Villa
Grimaldi to Tejas Verdes, to
Colonia Dignidad, Bucalemu,
Quillota, Monte Maraville, Colina
andother concentration camps run
by Pinochet.

In spite of the evidence, in spite
of testimony by Bishop Alvear,
who was arrested on May Day 1976
at No. 5115 Alejandro Fierro
Street, in the same area, Pinochet
has issued orders to deny my
husband’s arrest.

Habeas corpus and criminal
complaints -presented to the
Chilean Supreme Court in Jorge’s
behalf have been denied.

Inquiries by several well known
international figures have met the
most cynical and cowardly an-
swers: that “he has never been
arrested,”’ that “those people don’t
exist,’’ and that ‘‘people disappear
everywhere in the world and the
State is not responsible for an-
swering for them.” Some of the
people who have inquired about
Jorge are Jorge Mario Eastman,
attorney and a liberal member of
the Colombian Parliament; Joa-
quim Schwamborn of the Federal
Republic of Germany; Susan Ag-
nelli, deputy of the Italian
Parliament; Gerard Stuby and
Peter Becker, attorneys.

The crassest cynicism was ex-
pressed by Sergio Diez, ambassa-
dor to the Chilean junta to the
United Nations. In a _ reply

presented in Geneva to the working °

group of the UN Human Rights
Commission in August of last year,

. ‘Flying Mountain’

Diez declared that Mario Zamor-
ano and Jorge Munoz had left Chile
on May 12, for Argentina, via the
city of Pudahuel, on May 12.

We, the wives, mothers, sisters
and fiancees of the Chilean
political prisoners who have
disappeared, know they are
somewhere in Chile. They are
among the 2,500 political prisoners
who have vanished.

They will never submit, no
matter how brutal their captivity,
no matter what tortures they ex-
perience.

We are proud of their courage
and dignity. We are the comrades
of brave patriots, with an ideology
that makes us indestructible. The
political prisoners who have
disappeared are human beings
who have struggled for an ideal of
which they are proud and which
has filled their lives with hap-
piness. They are patriots who,
during the three years of fascism
in Chile, have never doubted the
victory of the people. :

On November 7, 1973, when I
asked for political asylum in the
Dutch embassy in Santiago, my
husband Jorge sent me a letter
saying: ‘‘We have to risk
everything for Man’s happiness, to
succeed through tenacity and
intelligence, in the face of death
(as Lenin would say), to do what
Neruda said of Lautaro, that ‘he
tamed his blood until he was
‘deserving of his people.’ And Jorge
added: ‘‘Nothing can discourage
us, we are indivisible, courageous,
we carry bells in our hearts.’ ”’

On June 18, 1974, just before I left
Chile, I received a letter in which
he spoke to me of our love for our
homeland, for nature, for our
Communist Party.

He said: ‘‘You and I are part of a
mountain range of men, women
and youth that extends from North
to South. It is imposing, it is a
watchtower, a point of reference
for many and almost immortal.
Man’s soul is embossed in lakes,
ridges and precipices. Some who
do not understand things too
clearly have souls like small
islands — something chaotic in
their insides. There are others who
have a structure of social and
moral values, they have a

mountain range in their souls.
That’s whom we belong to.”
That is how Jorge spoke to me

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beforehis arrest. I know that today
he would tell me the same thing:

AndI know that wherever he is, he |
feels bells in his heart and his pride |

of being a Communist has: grown.

That is why I want now to tell my
friends, my comrades, my sisters

in the struggle, all of those Chilean |

women whose relatives havé
disappeared, that we are going to

win, that we will find them, that we |

will never lose hope.

I want to share with you a poem
that Jorge sent me on February 6,
1974. It is by Konstantin Simonov
andit is called ‘‘Wait for me.” The
third verse says:

“Wait for me and I’ll return,
Spiting death and hate.

Let the.ones who did not yearn |

Say, I’m saved by fate.

They don’t know, they cannot tell

How your faith so sure

Saved me from that fiery hell,
Led me back once more.
Why I lived and did not fall,
We two know that best —

Waiting, you had faith, that’s all, .

Stronger than the rest.”

Yes, we wait with happiness, —

with optimism, with confidence.

It is a combative wait, of daily
struggle and effort; in which
nothing can stop us from con-
tinuing to struggle for the most.

broad unity that will overthrow the

fascist dictatorship. That is our —

wait.

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