The documentary series “9F: The return of the rifles” reveals the moment when Congressman Guadalupe Vásquez from Gana accepts that the militarization of the Legislative Assembly on February 9, 2020 was a “coup”.
An eight-second video, part of the documentary series “9F: The return of the rifles,” reveals that GANA’s deputy Guadalupe Vásquez said the militarization of the Legislative Assembly on February 9, 2020 was a “serious” event and was described. it as a “coup”.
“This is already a coup, a coup,” Vásquez said in the audiovisual footage captured that afternoon by a journalist from El Diario de Hoy. “It’s serious,” he adds, before being interrupted by Mario Tenorio, also a GANA deputy, who is also questioning the journalist recording the scene.
“What media are you from?” Tenorio asks the journalist and when he answers that he belongs to El Diario de Hoy, the deputy indicates that they are removing it and states, “Here we have it, respect me, respect the situation.” Immediately after, a person who appears to be part of the GANA party communications team blocks the image.
The moment is among the footage shot during the military raid on the Legislative Assembly led by President Nayib Bukele on February 9, 2020, minutes before his arrival in the Blue Chamber, to pressure delegates to secure a millionaire loan. that the executive had requested. It appears at minute 4:41 am of the fourth chapter of the documentary.
In addition to Deputies Guadalupe Vásquez and Mario Tenorio, other members of the Gana Legislative Bank also appear: Santos Adelmo Rivas, Wilfredo Guevara and Lorenzo Rivas.
In an interview with singer René Pérez Joglar, who is also part of the documentary series “9F: The Return of the Rifles”, Bukele accepts that his intention was to put pressure on the delegates. “How did he come to put the deputies in parliament?” Asked René and the president replied, “it’s a form of pressure”, “that pressure could be applied without an army,” the singer concluded.
An eye-opening production
The documentary series “9F: The return of the rifles” is a production involving a dozen journalists from El Diario de Hoy and Revista Factum, with the support of the digital newspaper El Faro. Together, they conducted more than 18 interviews with characters involved in the events of 9F and analyzed more than 15 hours of archival recordings of the events during the militarization of the Legislative Assembly that day.
“9F: The Return of the Rifles” lasts nearly 60 minutes and its publication was divided into chapters that split the events of 9F into four main moments.
Chapter 1: The Smoke Screen, recounts the events leading up to February 9 and clarifies President Bukele’s motives. In chapter 2: The end of the charm, the national and international consequences of the military takeover of the Salvadoran Congress are explored. Democracy under attack is the name from chapter 3, which describes the circumstances under which the Salvadoran constitutional order was broken and the damage to democracy. In the fourth chapter: With guns and God, the day of the failed coup is told step by step and reflections on what is missing from Nayib Bukele’s presidential term.