BarcelonaA few days ago, archaeologists discovered underground remains in a hotel in the center of Barcelona that radically change the map of ancient Barcino. Based on the stones found, scientists have concluded that the forum did not follow a north-south direction, but rather an east-west one. This is a complete reversal of the ancient history of the capital and a well-deserved euphoria for the excavators. Well then, the declassification of the 23-F documents They have caused neither joy nor hardly any surprise: not only because the established official map of the failed coup hasn't changed, but also because the few new pieces found only confirm that all those who were responsible ended up in jail, but not all those who were responsible were actually there.
Some surnames: Commander Cortina and Captains García Almenta and Sánchez Valiente, all assigned to the CESID (National Intelligence Center). The first was tried and acquitted. The other two were neither prosecuted nor tried, despite having actively participated in the preparation and execution of the military rebellion, as evidenced in the documents.
As for most of the other documents I've been able to review, they've made me think of my dear colleague Pepe Oneto, a courageous journalist and director of the equally courageous Change 16 and Time, who in 1982 published in a book the transcript of the calls made to the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Tejero and whose content is now surprising to some, more fitting for a Berlanga or Torrente film than for a commander of the "meritorious bodyThe same can be said of some Cesid reports now "revealed"which have also appeared in some of the hundreds of books dedicated to them.
A considerable mess
Pedro Sánchez's government says it has dusted off everything it had in its ministries, but it has done so in considerable disarray, with undated and unsigned documents and a jumble of conspiracies, from those predating February 23rd to those following it, such as the case known as the October 27th coup, planned for the days after the Socialist victory of 1982.
I miss the communications that were exchanged between the Zarzuela Palace and the different Captaincies General during the more than six very long hours that passed between the "everyone on the ground"and the pro-constitutional message of Juan Carlos I. Especially after reading in his memoirs that most of the captains general were in favor of the coup. A claim echoed in another book by Javier Calderón, then head of operations at the CESID and direct superior of Cortina and Almenta. And who, despite all the suspicions of the past and the evidence of the present, maintains that no one from the CESID had any involvement in the 23-F coup attempt. Well, not only that: the person primarily responsible for ensuring that the highest authorities of the State were informed of everything that could destabilize the constitutional order, argues in his book that Armada was not guilty but "a political victim."
What is surprising is a "secret" document that would confirm the serious tensions experienced by the general staff at that time: a "communicatingRegarding the house arrest imposed by the acting president of the military tribunal that tried the coup plotters on two generals with legal training for having addressed him with "serious and disrespectful terms." The first president had already resigned "for health reasons." Today, the generals, fortunately, have calmed down; the destabilization is being caused by some other high-ranking judges.
