A Mallorcan journalist tried to convince Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero to abandon his plans on the night of February 23, 1981. This is according to documents declassified this Wednesday, which include the transcript of journalist Joan Pla's testimony as a witness in the April 19, 1982 session of Oral Hearing 2.

A group of soldiers organized under the name of the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP) announced on Niger's state television on the night of July 26-27 that they had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum after holding him captive throughout Wednesday in the presidential palace in the capital, Niame. The UN has suspended its humanitarian aid program in the country, which benefited 4.3 million people.

When a group of armed Civil Guards stormed the Congress of Deputies on February 23, 1981, very few remained in their seats upon hearing the volley of gunfire in the air, which has been forever etched in the ceiling of the plenary hall: Suárez, Carrillo, Gutiérrez Mellado, and only a few people. A century earlier, something very similar happened: the entrance of General Pavía—also with Civil Guards—to dissolve the Cortes of the First Republic. At that time, one Mallorcan stood with his head held high and refused to leave his seat: Antoni Villalonga Pérez. We remember this singular figure on the 150th anniversary of his imprisonment (1875) for his loyalty to his ideas.