What remains today of that coup attempt perpetrated 23-F just thirty years ago today? Except for shouting "Get down all the world "that went around the world, not much else. Well it is, however, to refresh your memory of these facts are not repeated again. In the early days have released this website, I was referring to journalists who personally experienced this evening in Parliament or the surrounding area, of which I recall his words. I interviewed John Pla (see February 28, 2007), Eugene Smith (27 February), Luis del Olmo, J. Luis Balbin, Manolo Hernandez de Leon (26 February), Francisco Umbral, Eduardo Fernando Onegam Sotillos (22 February) and all I narrated his experience during those hours. And I recall in detail what I was told one of them, like Manuel Leguineche:
"Exceeded our astonishment, he explained the then director of the agency Cover on that night, we launched this mechanism is an essay, with the experience I already had other hits State. And I came to get me both professionally at the heart of this problem for a moment, I forgot that I lived in Spain and was a journalist and a English citizen. I cared more professional pruritus keep informed my papers and overcome the trauma suffered momentary, that the personal consequences of the coup should have triumphed. Of course, by instinct and smell, I saw it from first time a little crazy, highly localized and no chain. When they handed me this euphoria professional is when I started really worrying. Then I got thinking and reasoning over the professional and trepidation, to analyze what happened, I realized that this had been very serious. "
Leguineche was a little surprised the passiveness with which it was received. "Everyone talked about the blow that could come and eventually ended up not believing it could happen, it coming when least expected." And was glad to have had the good fortune to be able to write the review at the same time it was happening. "We were fortunate to contact with someone who was watching on television what was happening because he bounced to Prado del Rey from the mobile unit. For me it was like having the key to what happened. It was a wonderful moment in the newspapers began to call, surprised that anyone knew it all before. "
Walter Haubrich, correspondent of "Frankfurter" and president for seven years, the International Press Club, was preparing to leave home, after the vote, to speak with a politician. "I heard on the radio the conduct of the vote when, suddenly, I heard the screams and shots. I spoke once with my newspaper. We managed to still two issues with front-page news. Then I went to the courts and I spent the night walking and talking with people to give new information. A twenty hours believed that the coup had succeeded, especially, wanting to hear the news of RNE and meet military music. Regained hope to return back to normal on the radio, listen to the editorial of El Pais and the interview I did with Jordi Pujol, the maximum category of political freedom that had spoken to the King. The formation of an interim government secretaries confirmed me the idea that the coup had not progressed. " Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
told me that That night felt really scared. "We were very surprised. We try to communicate with the party in Madrid to find out what happened. Was thus a matter of urgency what to do with all the apparatus and we decided to save the files and create a series of security directorates. Then went home. Studied the measures it could take, if it was attacked. I returned an hour later the Executive Committee. It was a very busy night. " Raised the risk that any exit to the street could become a challenge and that could be used by the coup as proof necessary to continue the strike. "Even after the dawn, the thing was in the eaves. We chose a line of prudence and anticipation, and when, the next morning, he began to see that, little by little, diluted, it was restoring calm. " Montalbán
I found that, had it not been a member of the Central Executive Committee and would have immediately thought of where he hid. "At times, I imagined that my life was broken, he had to return to the sewers and go you know what. When you cop a coup being the executive of the Communist Party, you can think of everything bad and very little of the good. " Maruja Torres
were equally at home with his transistor radio and the television on. "I was, I must admit, I was reminded this reporter, acojonadísima, with the dog. I knew I could do two things: either stay and fuck me or flee. If I was not exiled but left to start another life in another country and send this to hell forever. None of sadness, nostalgia or anything. If I get the vein, pick up a rifle and go to the street, and if I get the vein to leave, I'm going to a desert island and to give blood sausage. There were thirty-odd years of my life. " Carmen also
Mayor, former director of Feminist Vindication, was at home when he heard. He got in contact with various media and followed the events. "Some friends called me to advise me to leave. Obviously, if the coup had succeeded, a lot of us would have been committed. There was a danger of personal vendettas caused by uncontrolled gangs. I raised it very seriously, but I reached the determination that, in any way, I left. I climbed a strange kind of patriotism to hold up whatever was necessary. After three hours, seeing the course of events, I calmed down. "
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