The performers arrived from Paris at 11:15 P.M. on March 21 for a New York concert scheduled to begin three hours earlier. The enthusiastic audience was still waiting for them. Leonard Walentynowicz. administrator for the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs for the State Department. explained the governments denial of visas. stating. "Under 212A28. aliens who have been members of the Communist Party are denied visas. This is congressional law and we are bound to abide by the law. What makes this country great is that we are a people who live by the laws." On Thursday. March 27. the Daily World reported on the Quilapayun tour thatThe Chilean Communist Youth folkloric group * * * came into being in 1965. a part of the powerful social movement that culminated with the electoral victory of the Unidad Popular. * * * Their commitment prompted President Allende to appoint them as "Cultural Ambassadors of the Chilean Government" In August. 1973. The Daily World continued: The U.S. Department of State and the Immigration Departments reluctance to grant the group a visa to tour the U.S. resulted in the cancellation of a Quilapayun concert scheduled at Bronxs Hostos Community College last March 17th.
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