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“a gripping pageturner...” -- NACLA Report on the Americas
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Tunnel to Canto Grande
The Story of the Most Daring Prison Escape in Latin American History
by Claribel Alegría, Darwin J. Flakoll
“...demonstrate[s] how events from real life are not infrequently more complex and suspenseful than anything mere imagination can invoke.” -- Michael Uhl, The Dissident
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A cross between The Great Escape and The Underground Railroad, Tunnel to Canto Grande tells the dramatic story of how the Peruvian Tupac Amuru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) tunneled into an “escape-proof” penitentiary, Canto Grande, to free forty-eight political prisoners on July 9, 1990. The prisoners escaped through the tunnel without a single casualty and eluded the authorities.
Because of their world-wide reputation as writers of testimony, the authors Alegría and Flakoll were invited by MRTA leaders to write the exclusive story of the escape. At no small risk to their own safety, they spent a week in the most hunted-for safehouse in Lima, Peru, interviewing the participants in the action and the escapees. The resulting narrative is filled with suspense, drama and humor.
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