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Tupamaro Prison Break: Montevideo, 1971 | Stories of Resistance
It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971.
Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out silently. They move into a tunnel that has been chiseled and dug slowly and silently for eight months, and they creep one by one underneath the prison.
It is the stuff of movies. Or of legends. Or of cartoons. The only sound is the ruffle of their prison uniforms and the occasional scrape of knees and hands on the ground.
A total of 111 men escape from the Punta Carretas prison that night. The prison break was known as “El Abuso.”…
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