Yaiza´s Essay

A sigth from the inside of the 23F

Talking about history it is difficult to specify the real event without subjective information. I will try to clarify some aspect of a very special point in history, to do that i took the help of my uncle. We all know the famous point of history called 23F. This coup d'etat was done by Fernando Tejero a Lieutenant Colonel of the “Guardia Civil”. He was a very authority person and comit power abuse to make an action against the spanish people. Without the consent of the Civil Gards involved, they were mostly deceived and they where arriving to the Congress and with all the desinformation that happend in all spanish state they have to continue with the circus.

My uncle was in the academy preparing to be promoted. An official come to them and he exactly say that an ETA comand dress-up like Civil Guards have kidnapped the Congress. He when to his house ( he didn´t know if it was real, if it was acoup d´etat or wherever). When he listened to the radio and only heared marcil march he realized that he was in front of a coup d´etat and thatin there there was more people implicated than just the Civil Guard. Sometimes in the radio they inform that all the forces of the state have to go to their respective destinations. It was at ten in the nigth three hours later of the new. He told his mother that he have to go and he give her a gun telling her “ i didn´t know what could happened. In this way he whento his destination, his mother was criying, may be remembering aobut the old times of the dictatorship.

He when alone to the street and take a taxi( There where no public transport and he had no car), when he sow the plate and told where he wanted to go , he took him for free. Through the Castellana only traveled police vehicles and police riding horses. That confirm him that ETA wasn´t the responsible.

When he arrived to the destination there were another mates there. The television was inroad by the army. One of his companions was informed that his fatherwas inside of the congress. In the free hours they go near the Congress to convinced his father to went out, only they were making the coup d´etat. At this time the tanks went to the streets of Valencia advising of the curfew ( Pased the time it was known that they didn´t have real ammunition, all was prepared)

When they arrivedto Neptuno it showed an atmosphere of mistrust between all and anyone did nothing. They pass a Police control that control the Civil Guard control and anyone stopped them (They were wearing usual cloth, not uniform), they had the official guns. It was incredible what he saw, everybody were armed looking at each other, without saying a word waiting for aparently nothing.

They arrived to the doors of the Congress, having passed 4 controls, without being stopped. His companion enter inside and my aunt waiting on the door, he feels like he was on a movie or something. From th inside anybody tells anything. He saw companions smoking out without knowing what to do.

Ten minutes later his companion when out. He had being spoke to his father and told him what happened at national level, that only some miliraty units rised up pacefully, but the Civil Guards keeped faithful to the Constitution. They when out of there astonishing again for not being sttoped one more time, they come back to their destination.

Some time after their arrival they saw on the TV that a military unit composed by 12 Police cars arrived to the Congress. They passed all the controls without being stopped and they openned the way, the “mandos” didn´t know how to react. There was an uncontrolled that let the people to suspect that that situation was rigged from the beginning.

Being a Civil Guard what he felt was infinity shame for being participated ( Taking into account the Civil Guards as a unit) in a role that was premeditatedand for had such a despotic controlers that took some men deceived to comit a crime against the people of spain. Once more as in the times of Franco the Civil Guards where used to realized a vandalic act of treason against the society. He realized that the “Benemerita” had a lot to change from the inside. That they may protect some Civil Guards if they disobey an order against the Código penal, either if they were military or civils, that frome other side even they didn´t know today. To the bad things sometimes they are military or they are Civilsandfor the bad things anybody remember them.

He didn´t know what will happened, From his inside he know that that was not real. As the nigth passed he confirm his idea that on the next morning all will have passed and thats it. He only felt some fear because he was worried about his mum. He was calmed until the point of walk around the congress as usual. He intuited that it was orchested from the higest positions.

To finish i have to add that, nowadays he still thinking that it was a deception to the society. The coup d´etat was done to clean some charges that in the future could done a real coup d´etatand the politician know it. He most politician where pupets of the global financial power and were at the service of the multimational instead of being democratic and stay by the side of the people.