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...soldiers, Calvo-Sotelo had to crack down on the known conspirators, but not so hard as to trigger another putsch. To remove the roots of discontent in the armed forces, he also needed to show rapid progress in curbing the Basque separatist terrorists, whose bloody attacks against the paramilitary Guardia Civil and police had inflamed the franquista officers. Here too, Calvo-Sotelo had a problem...
Ward's approach provokes thought, but too often her symbols become stereotypes removed from the realities of the society. The church seems too milk-white, beneficently bestowing its noble goodness on peasants and Guardia alike. The revolutionaries seem too selfish, petulant and shallow. The audience hears the superficial fire of the speeches, but too seldom can see the real fire in the minds of the faithful, whether churchgoers or revolutionaries...
...play is set in Nicaragua during 1979, when Sandinista rebels struggled to overthrow the dictatorial Somoza regime. Ward tries to dramatize the revolution's impact on a single village and its stock characters: the boyish revolutionaries, the Catholic priest, the young lovers, the disgruntled town elders. But the Guardia National remains off-stage; the abuses and injustice that spawned the revolution appear only as a background for the exploration of the tension between the revolutionaries and the traditions of the church and village...
...acting within a framework of terror and bloodshed without concentrating on that terror itself. However the absence of vivid oppression not only devalues the pivotal motives of the revolutionaries, but also perhaps overemphasizes their conflict with the church and obscures the injustices which drove them into opposition. With the Guardia to catalyse and focus the people's anger it is hard to appreciate the bonds between the people and the revolutionaries they support...
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 conflict in Madrid. Outside the parliament, hundreds of Guardias loyal to the government helped arrest their 200 comrades who were in the raiding force, some of whom insisted they had been told that they were going to rescue legislators who had been kidnaped by terrorists...