The documentary series “9F: The Return of the Rifles” reveals the moment when Ghanaian MP Guadalupe Vásquez accepts that the militarization of the Legislative Assembly, on February 9, 2020, was a “coup d’etat”
An eight-second video, part of the documentary series “9F: The return of the rifles”, reveals that the deputy Guadalupe Vásquez, of GUANYA, said that the militarization of the Legislative Assembly, on February 9, 2020, yes which was a “serious” fact and he described it as a “coup d’etat.”
“This is already a coup d’etat, a coup d’etat,” Vásquez said in the audiovisual material captured during the afternoon of this day by a journalist from the Diario de Avui. “It’s serious,” he added, before being interrupted by Mario Tenorio, also a deputy of GUANYA, who also questions the journalist who records the scene.
“From what medium are you,” Tenorio asks a journalist and when he replies that he belongs to El Diari d’Avui, the deputy indicates that he should be removed and argues “Here we are talking, respect me, respect the situation.” Immediately afterwards, a person who appears to be part of the WIN party communication team blocks the image.
The moment belongs to the prey recorded during the military incursion into the Legislative Assembly, led by President Nayib Bukele on February 9, 2020, minutes before his arrival at the Blue Hall to pressure MPs to approve a millionaire loan that the executive asked. It appears in minute 04:41 of the fourth chapter of the documentary.
In the scene, besides deputies Guadalupe Vásquez and Mario Tenorio, they appear other members of the legislative bench of Ghana: Saints 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 admits that his intention was to put pressure on MPs. “Why was it that he put the deputies in parliament?” René questioned and the president replied, “it’s a form of pressure,” “This pressure could be exerted without an army,” the singer concluded.
A revealing production
The documentary series “9F: The return of the rifles” is a production in which he involved a dozen journalists from El diari d’Avui and Revista Factum, with the support of the digital newspaper El Far. Altogether, they conducted more than 18 interviews with characters involved in the events of 9F and analyzed more than 15 hours of archival recordings of events during the militarization of the Legislative Assembly, that day.
“9F: The Return of the Rifles” lasts close to 60 minutes and its publication was divided into chapters that segment the events of 9F into four major moments.
Chapter 1: The Smokescreen, narrates the events leading up to February 9 and clarifies President Bukele’s motives. In Chapter 2: The head of charm, explores the national and international consequences of the military takeover of the Salvadoran Congress. Democracy under fire is the name of Chapter 3, Which describes the circumstances under which the Salvadoran constitutional order was broken and the damage to democracy. In the fourth chapter: With rifles and God, the day of the failed coup is recounted step by step and reflections are presented in the face of what is missing from Nayib Bukele’s presidential term.