Lucio Anarquista / Lucio the Anarchist

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Uploaded by on Dec 25, 2011

Anarquistas ha habido y sigue habiendo bastantes en el mundo. Los que han tenido que cometer atracos o introducirse en el contrabando para la causa son numerosos. Los que han discutido estrategias con El Ché o han ayudado a Eldridge Cleaver -el líder de los Panteras Negras- son los menos. Los que unido a todo lo anterior, hayan conseguido poner contra las cuerdas al banco más poderoso del planeta mediante la falsificación masiva de traveller checks, y sin faltar un solo día a su trabajo de albañil de construcción, sólo hay uno. Lucio Urtubia, hijo de Cascante (Navarra).

Lucio, hoy en día, vive en Paris, retirado. Ha sido testigo -muchas veces parte activa- de varios acontecimientos históricos que se han dado la segunda mitad del siglo XX. vivió desde dentro el fenómeno del Mayo de 1968, apoyó con su participación el inicio del régimen de Castro, participó en toda clase de actividades antifranquistas... Pero sin lugar a dudas su gran golpe lo dio en la segunda mitad de la década de los setenta, acaparando así en la prensa titulares como el "bandido bueno", o el "Zorro vasco". Consiguió estafar al First National Bank (ahora Citibank) 3.000 millones de pesetas de la época, para invertir el dinero en causas en las que creía. Asombrosamente, su "carrera" le ha costado sólo unos meses de cárcel.


The story of Spanish anarchist bricklayer and bank robber Lucio Uturbia.

There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver, the leader of the Black Panthers.

There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia, from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain. Lucio, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell. Lucio has been protagonist and witness to many of the historic events of the second half of the 20th century. His family was persecuted by Franco's regime, he was on the streets of Paris for the phenomenon of May of '68, he actively supported Castro's revolution, he helped thousands of exiled people by providing false documents to them. But without a doubt, his greatest triumph came in the second half of the seventies. The press called him "the good bandit", or the Basque Zorro. He managed to swindle 25 million dollars from the First National Bank (now Citibank), to later invest the money in causes he believed in. Miraculously, he spent no more than a few months in jail throughout his career.

http://www.lucio.com.es

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