Women escape from the Cabildo jail in Montevideo - Uruguay 1971

Uruguay: General views of the exterior of the Cabildo prison in Montevideo. Close-ups of an armed soldier standing near a sentry box. General views of the gap where the 38 women of the Tupamaros liberation movement fled. General views of the interior of the cell. General views of the tunnel that they dug with a length of 17 meters. Close-ups of the elements they used to dig the tunnel. Close-ups of a headline published in the newspaper "La Idea" and it is observed writing: "38 women fled today"; and in the newspaper "Acción" it is observed writing: "38 seditious escaped from jail through a tunnel." Close-ups of a man entering the tunnel. General views of several army trucks arriving at the prison. General views of the interior of the cell. Close-ups of the gap in the floor. Report where the journalist Aníbal Estefe comments: "At dawn today, 39 tupamaras escaped using the procedure of digging a tunnel that was connected to the sewer network, and from there the 39 tupamaras walked for several blocks inside the sewage network until we exit through one of the storm drains on the street. Precisely on this street that we find ourselves during the day, underneath it runs the sewer through which the 39 tupamaras who managed to escape today from this women's prison walked , which already has a history of massive flight. A little over a year ago, a dozen Tupamaras, at the time a mass was being celebrated, managed to escape. All if one takes into account that events such as This one, of escape from Tupamaros. You will remember that a short time ago, the engineer Juan Almiratti managed to escape from a court, and that a few days ago, the also Tupamaro Raúl Bidegain Greissing escaped leaving in his place, in the Punta Carretas jail, to a brother very similar to him. Through here, under this street runs the sewer. There later are the bags that contain the earth that the tupamaras were taking out in order to make the tunnel that connected them with the sewage network. We are going to indicate that the President of the Republic was in a meeting for 4 hours with the Minister of the Interior, presumably dealing with this massive flight of tupamaros that can cause, we reiterate, derivations so far unsuspected and that could even culminate with the resignation of a minister and such sometimes with more important political derivations. "(Without sound / Aníbal Estefe)
Date: 1/8/1971
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Film Code: C-00164

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