Rio Gallegos Prison

Sleeping guards with sleeping pills and pushing a car: the escape of six Peronist leaders from the Rio Gallegos prison

On March 18, 1957, members of the Peronist Resistance (including Hector Campora, Jorge Antonio, John William Cooke and Guillermo Patricio Kelly) fled to Chile. The plan, the setbacks, the ruse to get a hostile guard out of the way and the letter that Cooke sent to Perón: “Campora is not of great use”