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51 years after the escape Celedonio Carrizo is one of the guerrillas who participated in the operation, although he had to remain in prison waiting for vehicles to leave the area, which never arrived. He had been arrested in October 1970 in Jujuy. Already in the Villa Urquiza prison, in Tucumán, he began to associate with prisoners from the FAP and the PRT-ERP who later managed to escape from that prison. The rest were transferred to Rawson, where “el Cele” arrived at the age of 21. When he arrived at the Chubut penitentiary, the escape plan was already underway. Over the years, Celedonio became one of the main representatives of the Trelew case. In this flashback during a tour of the prison grounds with the audiovisual team of this portal, he recalls how the revolutionary solidarity that led to the joint organization of the operation was formed, the incorporation of the FAR inside the prison and the chilling details of the minutes of high tension in which the escape was precipitated. *** On August 15, 1972, more than one hundred political prisoners from the ERP, Montoneros and FAR escaped from the maximum security prison in Rawson. The cinematic operation ended with six high-ranking revolutionary leaders boarding a plane that took them to Chile first and finally to Cuba, and with another group that arrived late to the airport shot a week later in the Trelew Massacre, which marked Argentine political history with blood and fire. The brutal massacre marked the beginning of the end of Alejandro Agustín Lanusse's dictatorship, but it inaugurated a criminal methodology that would later massify to unspeakable levels the state terrorism that took over the government on March 24, 1976. In 2022, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the Rawson Escape and the Trelew Massacre, Canal Abierto traveled to Chubut to record the commemorative activities, interview survivors and relatives, participate in the tributes and relive together with the protagonists, neighbors and activists one of the most critical moments in the history of the class struggle in our country. From there emerged the documentary And We Went Looking For Him, which records the struggle to obtain a civil trial and a conviction for the executioner Roberto Bravo in the United States, and a series of productions that will be published during this week. This video is part of the special that Canal Abierto recorded in the activities that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Trelew Massacre. ----- Follow us: www.canalabierto.com.ar www.facebook.com/CanalAbierto / canalabiertoar instagram.com/canalabierto WhatsApp: http://bit.ly/WhatsAppCanalAbierto