Santiago Carrillo
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Santiago José Carrillo Solares was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain from 1960 to 1982.
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Delivering a speech in Tolosa in 1936
Santiago Carrillo speaking to the VI Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1963.
Carillo in 2006
1981 Spanish coup attempt
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A coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by right-wing, Francoist elements of the Civil Guard and the Spanish military. The failure of the coup marked the last serious attempt to revert S
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…that this policy played a key role in making possible a peaceful transition to democracy. Carrillo was re-elected in 1979, but the failed right-wing coup d'état attempt on 23 February 1981 reduced support for the PCE, as Spanish society was still recovering from the trauma of the Civil War and subsequent repression and…
Antonio Tejero bursting into the Plenary Chamber of the Congress of Deputies, gun in hand
The Congress of Deputies Plenary Hall (pictured in 2014).
Adolfo Suárez (right) and Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (center) in their seats in Congress (pictured in 1979), talking with Marcelino Oreja (left).
Bullet holes left on the ceiling (pictured in 2015).