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April 22, 2022 1 min

Lots of cool people in history have done really cool stuff. Let Margaret Killjoy tell you about them. In this trailer, learn about the cool anarchist bank robbers who performed a cool jailbreak in Uruguay in 1931.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff,
which is a podcast about cool people who did cool stuff.
I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. I'm a science fiction author,
a feminist and an activist. And every week I'll be
telling a new story of rebellion, revolution and you know,
cool stuff like that to comedians, writers, journalists, and whoever

(00:21):
else I can convince to listen. For this mini episode,
I want to tell you about a nine prison break
from Punta Caritas prison in Montevideo, the capital Duguay. A
bunch of anarchist bank robbers had just been arrested. They
had been over in Argentina robbing the rich to raise
money for revolution. When it got too hot, so they
went to Uruguay. They made a big score, they got
caught and they went to prison. Their friends, though, and

(00:44):
they had a lot of friends. Their friends were like,
we should get them out. So to raise money for
the prison break, they you know, robbed more capitalists and
a nice upstanding Italian couple with their young daughter went
and purchased a plot of land next to the prison.
The cops ran a back ground check it all came
back fine. They built and ran a successful pole depot

(01:04):
for a year and a half. They were kind to
their neighbors, they gave good deals to their customers, and
they were generally well loved. Then all of a sudden
they left, So did nine prisoners. You see you. Over
that year and a half, in addition to running the
coal business, they were digging a tunnel, a fifty meter
tunnel tall enough to stand in, with lights and ventilation,
which ran right up to the prison yard. Three cars

(01:27):
were waiting for their newly free friends, and off they went.
Not a shot fired, perfect jail brick. Which is cool.
Breaking your friends out of prison is cool. It's cool
people you know doing cool stuff. Listen to cool people
who did cool stuff every Monday and Wednesday, starting May two,
on the i Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
you get your podcasts.
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