WI Tejero's coup succesfull?

I was reading about Tejero's coup in 1981 and it seems that the coup could be successful if more Generals supported it...

WI Tejero succeeded in his coup? What would change in Spain? Any guesses about international reactions?
 
Tejero, despite all his comic looks was not a particular comic figure. he was a senior Guardia officer. He told the MP's that they should just sit still and an "important military figure" would be addressing them shortly. The communist MP feared they would be dragged outside and shot, just like the 1930's.

Nobody has ever found out who it was, but it could have ben the King, Juan Carlos.

Franco, btw, called poor Juan Carlos "Juan the Brief". Apparantly, Juan Carlos did not believe it was great fun, wonder why.

It could have been Franco again, at least the "democracy" reforms Franco believed in.

The Tejero coup is and was murky. I am busy on book #2, which has a coup in Spain as a parallel plot. It reaches back to the early Franco days and also to the Tejero coup. That part of Spanish history is full of all ingredients which not even Clancy could conjure up.

Ivan
 
I dont think Tejero had the potential to become the new Franco... He was a semi-crazed officer. Had the King supported the coup or more Generals were implicated on it then i believe Spain would return to Francoism under Juan Carlos or some other General.
 
Tejero, despite all his comic looks was not a particular comic figure. he was a senior Guardia officer. He told the MP's that they should just sit still and an "important military figure" would be addressing them shortly. The communist MP feared they would be dragged outside and shot, just like the 1930's.

Nobody has ever found out who it was, but it could have ben the King, Juan Carlos.

Or more probably General Armada, who actually went to the Congress, and tried to convince Tejero to let him adress the hostages. He had also been the central figure of a series of political manouvers in the preceding months to stablish a National Unity Government, called "Operation DeGaulle" (Armada was a great admirer of the French general). In the end, Armada objectives were too 'soft' for Tejero tastes.

The Tejero coup is and was murky. I am busy on book #2, which has a coup in Spain as a parallel plot. It reaches back to the early Franco days and also to the Tejero coup. That part of Spanish history is full of all ingredients which not even Clancy could conjure up.

Yeah. Senior figures of the CSID (Centro Superior de Investigación de la Defensa, the spanish Intelligence service) were involved in the plot, but as good spies they covered their backs so well, that even today it's not known their real degree of implication. And there were a few generals who would have supported the coup (following the classic model of the spanish military coup, the pronunciamiento), who were restrained (in the sense of urging moderation) or sidelined by their immediate subordinates. And the civilian component, has never been investigated in full. Not to mention the strange behaviour of the US Embassy that day


I dont think Tejero had the potential to become the new Franco... He was a semi-crazed officer. Had the King supported the coup or more Generals were implicated on it then i believe Spain would return to Francoism under Juan Carlos or some other General.

For all that would have lasted. I think that there would have been a portuguese-style revolution a few years down the line.
 
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