Word: cortese
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The menace has crystallized in a single, indelible video-tape image replayed again and again on countless TV sets throughout Spain: Guardia Civil Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina standing in the Cortes last Feb. 23, holding the Spanish government, and the nation, at gunpoint. Tejero and his fellow military conspirators...
Unquestionably, the aborted coup attempt has transformed Spanish politics. Old issues-institutional reform, regional autonomy-have been swept aside for the time being; the balance of power among the parties has shifted. The government has launched an investigation into the coup conspiracy, but almost no one in Madrid expects major...
Following their release the Deputies trooped, shaken but unharmed, down the steps of the colonnaded Cortes. Their joyful sense of relief was tempered by concern for the future of Spanish democracy. Said one senior government official: "This has been a good lesson, but we are still ashamed. We thought we...
One thing that seemed certain was the Spanish people's overwhelming belief in democracy and their joy at its deliverance. At week's end, millions filled the streets in nationwide demonstrations that were endorsed by all the major political parties. Nearly one-fourth of Madrid's population...
Tejero's hard line quickly made him the darling of the extreme right, but he could not have taken the Cortes without the Guardia Civil's willingness to follow orders-any orders. As it turned out, that no-questions-asked discipline showed up on both sides of the...