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Escape from Venezuela’s Deadliest Prison

By: Natalie Welsh
Narrated by: Harriet Hardy
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Summary

After getting arrested at a Venezuelan airport with a suitcase of cocaine, Natalie was clueless about the danger she was facing.

Sentenced to 10 years, she arrived at a prison with armed men on the roof, whom she mistakenly believed were the guards, only to find out they were homicidal gang members.

Immediately, she was plunged into a world of unimaginable horror and escalating violence, where murder, rape, and gang warfare were carried out with the complicity of corrupt guards. Male prisoners often entered the females’ housing area, bringing gunfire with them and leaving corpses behind.

After 4.5 years, Natalie risked everything to escape and flee through Colombia, with the help of a guard who had fallen deeply in love with her.

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Harrowing and tragic true life story of life in prison and the horrendous conditions that had to be endured, without the help of allies, friends and forbidden love found in truly uncommon circumstances, it would have been difficult to survive. I sincerely admire the strength and perseverance of Natalie

Great read highly recommended

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I'd seen the author's interview on Youtube, couldn't quite place her and bought this book, wondering what exactly was going through her head at those points of ' go large or go home' ( pardon the punt ). Well, according to the book at least, a lot less than expected.

( spoiler alert ) The author sort of just went for it 'so one day me and Juan decided we were going to do it' ...she didn't escape the prison, btw, she escaped the country in which the prison was, while on some sort of a months' long parol. No one checked author's papers on a way out. Seemed like 50/50 chance, or thereabouts. So she believed that life will just sort itself out. Life sometimes does it, of course, if you do brave things, except in author's case it wasn't life that elegantly put things in their rightful places, but mostly other people, that went out of their way to sort hers out, to be then of course left behind as inevitable collateral of helping someone in continuous denial, which was no biggie, the author didn't hide it very well, as it's sort of a basic 'what happened' book so quite transparent like that. There didn't seem to be much before and after transformation of any other sort either, only superficial.

I was hoping to get inspired...by something, somebody else's inner freedom, even selfish freedom..but the freedom bit was missing for me here. Joke's on me though, shouldn't have bothered with the book in the fist place



underwhelmed by the achievement factor here

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absolutely gripping from the first word ! , all of the negative comments I've read from the little sheltered Karen's with no life experience , need to get a full on grip!

again what an amazing read

brilliant read I urge people to buy it

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All in all a good story, however the accents that the narrator does are absolutely atrocious. If your Spanish-speaking characters sound like cheap villians from Arabian Nights then you should probably just read it in your normal voice. I've cringed a number of times whilst listening to this and it just lets the whole thing down in my eyes; the scouse accent is another one that made me just want to turn it off and leave it for good.
Also pre-warning but the protagonist (?) will no doubt have you thinking 'you idiot' at some point. We were all naive and clueless at some point, but the decisions she made and the general lack of thought that went into those decisions might make it hard to like her, and leave you feeling a bit disassociated from her.
Besides that, good solid story.

Good story marred by awful accents

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loved it and was great story kept me very interested all the way through. recommend it to anyone.

brilliant story

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