The desperate calls of Tejero's wife when she saw that the coup had failed: "The Army has left me 'thrown away' like a cigarette butt. They have 'deceived' me"
The article recounts the frantic attempts of Carmen Díez Pereira, the wife of Antonio Tejero, to contact her husband during the failed coup attempt in Spain on February 23, 1981, expressing her feelings of abandonment by the military.
Tejero's wife referred to the military as "fool" or "wretched" dozens of times on 23-F: "They left him like a cigarette butt"
The wife of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero referred to her husband derogatorily during the attempted coup in Spain on February 23, 1981, as newly released archival documents reveal her desperate attempts to contact him.