La Alcatraz del Altiplano (40 min. Spanish version by Fugas podcast) by Lezak Shallat published on 2022-06-14T08:48:23Z 40-min. Spanish-language feature based on my 12 min English-language piece with Alejo Torrejón (track on this Soundcloud page), produced in 2022n by the makers of the Argentine podcast series Fugas. With just a soccer ball and a knife, 72 Bolivian political prisoners locked away on the island of Coati overpowered their jailers, commandeered a fleet of rickety boats across Lake Titicaca, trekked by night into Peru, and escaped unscathed from the clutches of the Gen. Hugo Banzer regime to safe haven in Cuba. The 1972 escape from the Alcatraz of the Altiplano exposed the Bolivian military's repressive round-up of its leftist opponents, as recalled 50 years later by its aging protagonists. * VIDEO (in Spanish with English subtitles)Buenos Aires, May 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5b7Iax-XFo (English subtitles do not correspond exactly to English transcript) * PHOTO GALLERY: https://www.revistaanfibia.com/web-stories/fugas-la-alcatraz-del-altiplano/?fbclid=IwAR3s7BcTNa4xmmrCFsdvuBismMpvEKUBGAHN2GSCWMjCvtThyReHpaXgFD8 Genre Podcast Fugas