The wife of former Costa Rican President. Jose Figueres, was among the guest speakers at the First Seminar of Venezuelan Women on the Current Situation of Soviet Jewry, recently ended in Caracas. Mrs. Figueres. whose husband headed one of Latin America’s few democratic regimes, expressed her support of Soviet Jewry’s fight for freedom, saying, “What we cannot guarantee for others, isn’t guaranteed for ourselves.”
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