(C) 2005 Armando Salas. --------------February 23, 1981.- A putsch: Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina (under the orders of two more senior officers, Lieutenant-General Jaime Miláns del Bosch and Major-General Alfonso Armada) marches into Congress and holds the deputies hostage while the Motorized Division of Miláns del Bosch occupies the streets of Valencia. The coup is foiled by the King, who contacts other army officers to assure them that the coup did not have his support, as had been claimed by the conspirators.-------- I did this pencil portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Tejero at Castillo de la Palma militar prison ( Ferrol) . March 1981.