Couple smuggles tapes about Peru prison break. (Darwin Flakoll and Claribel Alegria) National Catholic Reporter | March 18, 1994| | COPYRIGHT 1994 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll, wife and husband, went incognito to Peru and taped 75 hours of interviews with leftist guerrillas about how they dug a 300-meter tunnel over a period of three years, leading to a celebrated 1990 escape from Peru's maximum security prison, Canto Grande.

The result was Fuga de Canto Grande, published by the Jesuit Central American University in San Salvador. The English edition, Tunnel to Canto Grande, is expected within the year from Curbstone Press (321 Jackson St., Willimantic, CT 06226).

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