Anniversary Juan Armada, the depositary of the camellias that the general cared for after his pardon on 23F
Today, Tuesday, February 23, when
40 years
have passed since
the coup
, an image, recorded by one of the chambers of Congress, has gone down in history: that of General
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
, then Vice President of the Government and Minister of Defense, facing the leader of the coup,
Colonel Tejero.
This, seconds before, had burst into Congress with a group of civil guards firing left and right while shouting "to the ground, everyone to the ground!".
All the deputies took refuge
under his seat,
except for the president,
Adolfo Suárez,
and
Santiago Carrillo
, leader of the Communist Party.
But in addition, Gutiérrez Mellado went to the leader of the coup demanding that, as his superior, he deposed his attitude.
Tejero ordered his men to bring
down the general by force,
shaking him violently, while a terrifying noise of gunfire was heard.
The shocking image catapulted Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado as
one of the heroes
of 23-F and democracy, receiving from then on all kinds of tributes and distinctions.
Among them, the appointment by Felipe González of honorary captain general and
the title of Marquis de Gutierrez Mellado
that King Juan Carlos granted him in October 1994 "in recognition of his exemplary career".
Almost coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the coup, the BOE published on February 13 that Lucía Gutiérrez-Mellado Satrústegui,
granddaughter of the military man,
who
died in a car accident
in 1995 and dedicated his last years to the fight against drug addiction together with the Queen Sofia in the FAD, had
requested the marquisate
of Gutiérrez Mellado that her grandfather held.
He has done so
after the death of his father,
also called Manuel and eldest of the general's male children.
Funeral of Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, in 1995.
The title was originally inherited by his eldest daughter, María del Carmen, the oldest of the five children born from
his union with Carmen Blasco,
whom he married in 1938 and with whom he now shares a mausoleum in the
Villaviciosa de Odón cemetery
.
After Carmen
passed
away
without heirs
in 2005, the marquisate passed to his brother Manuel, a businessman
married to Isabel Satrústegui Silvela
and father of three children: Lucía, Manuel and Juan.
Curiously, none of the three grandchildren of the renowned military man has followed in his footsteps in the Army, but rather they
are dedicated to the world of finance:
Manuel works as an executive at Black Rock, one of the most important North American investment managers that
operates on Wall Street,
and Juan works in private banking at
Deutsche Bank
.
Precisely, one of the few times that this very
discreet family
has appeared in the pink press was on the occasion of the
wedding of Juan,
who in April 2019 married
Silvia Abascal Alonso-Lamberti
, a marriage that took place on the
Labarca
estate
, at the foot of the Sierra de Gredos and in which his brothers acted as witnesses.
Lucía, the only girl and future Marchioness of Gutiérrez Mellado, with an overwhelming resume, is today the
director of strategy
for Spain and Portugal at the
JP Morgan
bank
.
It is very common to see it appear in the economic press talking about fixed and variable income or the behavior of different assets.
Very discreet, in her frequent interventions in the media there is
no reference to the link with her grandfather,
General Gutiérrez Mellado, from whom in the near future she will inherit her emblematic marquisate.
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