Juan Carlos I talks about the silent hero of 23-F: "General Juste was the one who prevented the Army from believing that I was behind the coup"

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• EMILIA LANDALUCE

  Madrid

Saturday, 20 February 2021 - 22:38

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In

Anatomy of a moment

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Javier Cercas

writes that on 23-F "he shielded the Crown: acting outside the Constitution, using the last trick of a king without power -the one he had as the symbolic head of the army and heir to Franco ( although he had renounced his powers to cede them to popular sovereignty and become a constitutional monarch) - King Juan Carlos stopped the coup and became a savior of democracy ".

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