The Last Witness of Mujica’s Tupamaros’ Escape in 1971: “The Message Was ‘Here We Are, if We Want We Can’

At 5.00 p.m. on Monday, September 6, 1971, six women ran to the outer wall of the Punta Carretas prison in Montevideo and shouted loudly: “The tupamaros escaped, the tupamaros escaped, we were kidnapped for more than ten hours.” The guards who looked at them from above answered them with a sorna “go to sleep, blowjobs”, a little elegant way to tell them that they were drunk and it was not in good taste to disturb them with nonsense at those hour…