I forgot to add that the Paz brothers and Maria Marchi confessed under torture thus invalidating their confessions under international law. SP Sam Pawlett wrote: > Christine Lamont, 39, of Vancouver B.C. and David Spencer, 35, of > Moncton N.B. were given full parole yesterday by the Canadian prison > authorities on the condition that they not associate with groups or > individuals who espouse violence as a means to social revolution. They > had served a little over 10 years of the life sentences they were given > in Brazil for the kidnapping of supermarket magnate Alberto Dinz.They > were released a little over a month after returning to Canada under a > new prisoner exchange treaty signed by the Canadian and Brazilian > governments. The kidnapping was a Chilean MIR operation directed at > raising funds for the FMLN for their 1989 country wide offensive. Later, > Tomas Borge's interior ministry was implicated when an FMLN weapons > cache was discovered in Managua in 1992 that contained false I.D.'s for > Lamont and Spencer. There is some speculation that the operation was > under the direction of Borge's interior ministry as was the Argentinian > EPR operation that elimated Somoza in Asuncion, Paraguay. The > kidnapping operation was a disaster since it occurred during the 89 > Brazilian election campaign. Predictably, the kidnappers were painted as > PT members with one of the accused put on Globo TV with a PT T-shirt on. > The Brazilian right got a lot of political capital out of this. Lula > narrowly lost the election to Collor who was later impeached for > corruption( a friend of a friend's father prosecuted him). > The others implicated in the kidnapping were; Chilean Miristas Maria > Marchi, engineer, Ulises Gallardo, sociologist, Hector Tapia, mechanic, > Pedro Lembach, economics professor, Sergio Olivares, electrician, > Brazilian Raimundo Freire, and Argentinian EPR leaders Humberto and > Horacio Paz. I do not know what has happened with these revolutionaries > except that there was a lot of talk of sending them back to their home > countries. In an interview in the Jan 9/97 edition of the Chilean > journal Punto Final, Chilean MIR leader Roberto Moreno claimed that the > operation was nicknamed 'Carmelo' and was aimed at securing $US30 > million for the Salvadorean FPL. Moreno also had this to say: " Fue un > grave error politico y etico. La idea del secuestro es una infiltarcion > de la mentalidad capitalista en la logica revolutionaria: se coloca un > precio y se cobra por la mercancia. Es el tipo de error en que existe el > mayor vicio ideologico, en toda la histroia de la guerilla > latinoamerica....Justo en el momento en que la Izquierda Brasilena tenia > las mayores posibilidades de victoria. Nuestra accion perjudico > gravemente esa perspectiva y afecto no solo a la Izquierda Brasilena > sino a toda la Izquierda latinoamerica." I hope Lamont and Spencer write > about their experiences and continue their commitment to social change > in L.A. Their experience and dedication is badly needed in the movement > here. > > Sam Pawlett