leaders of the Venezuelan Communist party escaped from the San Carlos prison in which they had been held for four years in Caracas, according to a February 7 dispatch. They were Pompeio Marquez, Guillermo Garcia Ponce and Teodoro Petkoff. Police found a tunnel about 260 feet long dug from a house located near the prison and calculated that it took at least a year to dig it. The three leaders were political prisoners, having been jailed by the Betancourt regime as political opponents in 196%. Marquez and Garcia were members of parliament. Reputedly the three leaders berong to the right wing of the Communist party and are opposed to armed guerrilla struggle.
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