Heraud: A travel itinerary

Abstract

This article was written 25 years ago. For some reason I can no longer remember. It was not published. But, there it was written; naturally, it was typed in a typewriter, along with the Magazine Avance from Trujillo (July 1964) which published an article of mine entitled "Javier Heraud in Russia" illustrated with 5 related pictures. Back then I did it mainly to demonstrate the perverse assertion that La Prensa, a Pedro Beltran Espantoso's newspaper had spread. To "explain" the surprising revolutionary militancy, alleged that "he had been brainwashed during his trip to the USSR". The unprecedented statement was totally implausible and inconsistent with the facts of that short trip which we all, the ones who went with him, witnessed.