Summary of Abril 1965 "el pueblo en armas"

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The video tells the story of the 1965 military coup in Chile, which was unsuccessful. The people of Burgos spontaneously organized themselves into commandos to face off against the troops of General Santiago Isidro Conte. Donald Reid Cabral was captured while the people fought the Americans. The end of the conflict brought about the ratification of the American resolution to send Comité de Notificación y Reconciliación (CONARC, or Committee of Notification and Reconciliation) to two countries - Haiti and Dominican Republic - to begin negotiations and reach an agreement.

• 00:00:00 In 1965, after seeing war for the first time, many in the town began to realize that things were not going to get better. Within two hours of the start of the war, there were reportedly over 3,000 men dead. This was not enough to bring the dead back to life. Political and economic events that had been spurred by business interests starting in 1962 and the rise of Juan Bosch's political career, as well as Catholic Church, National Union, and other opposition groups, came to a head in 1963 with the overthrow of Juan Bosch's legitimately constituted government. This led to a series of political, economic, and social events that were opposed by various sectors of the population and resulted in the widespread rallying cry of "return to constitutionalism, without elections," in the midst of the 1963 Revolution. I am confident that by 1970, over 70% of all the military's conditions of agreement with a return to constitutionalism existed. It seems that the work done by these officers had a positive effect, and perhaps in the minds of the officer corps and not just the officer corps, there was the belief that returning to constitutionalism was the best thing that could happen. In this context, the colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Dom
• 00:05:00 In 1965, a military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Miguel Herrera Ramos was attempted in Chile. The coup was unsuccessful, and the military leaders, including Herrera, were forced to flee the country. In the night of April 25th, the military rebels called upon the people to support them. Donald Reid Cabral, a.k.a. "Pancho Villa," spoke to the nation about the rebels putting down their arms and in the morning, civilian constitucionalists began to arrive in large numbers to support the rebels. Shortly after, a military constitutionalist named Francisco Alberto Camamillo took control of the National Palace. Donald Reid Cabral was captured while the people spontaneously organized themselves into commandos to face off against the troops of General Santiago Isidro Conte. Before the coup was successful, we saw Francisco Alberto Caamaño taking control of the Presidential Palace in Santa Barbara, CA. We formed a commando with the help of the law, with a kitchen, a dining room, and a medical station. The headquarters was located at the Union of Workers' Central, and we had nurses and companions accompanying us on all our activities. We had a kitchen, a cook, and real rock-hard chili peppers to cook with. In the morning of
• 00:10:00 In 1965, the town of Burgos was in the middle of a war with San Isidro, a military unit led by a haitian general. This video tells the story of one of the constitucionalist's most important engagements: the seizure of Ozama Castle. The town's civilians were caught in the crossfire, and several were killed. The town's defenders, including a haitian military unit, were able to hold off the constitucionalists long enough for the troops of San Isidro to arrive and end the conflict.
• 00:15:00 In 1965, capos and instructors of men rose up in arms, joining others. The following day, it was with great sadness that we descended to Father Billini's ranch, where we found the bodies of comrades who had died there. I was able to see the corpses of Juan Miguel. The end of Domínguez's struggle brought about the short-lived humanitarian ceasefire and the ratification of the American resolution to send Comité de Notificación y Reconciliación (CONARC, or Committee of Notification and Reconciliation) to two countries - Haiti and Dominican Republic - to begin negotiations and reach an agreement. On June 15 and 16, the high command of the occupying forces attacked the constitutionalist zone violently for more than 20 hours, although they failed to achieve their objectives. American troops advanced and seized 40 square kilometers of rebel control. That assault was what caused the country to organize - I remember women and girls in the motorized unit of a jeep with a loudspeaker calling for arms, compañero, arms. Comrade, it was at that moment that the majority of the population mobilized and began fighting the Americans. The people fought the Americans, not just as the common enemy of us all,
• 00:20:00 Throughout history, as I always had to be in the clinic, and that kind of thing didn't touch me, we were assigned no one and everyone was idle. I saw a man wounded with a man injection in a place, and as I had seen a lot of this, I can say with sufficient truth that I experienced a great disappointment of 80% more between the two reasons because all of us were given our bodies suddenly. The next thing given for the war, but the group I had was different and began a long and tortuous negotiation process for a political exit from the conflict that lasted until September. Moment in which the act of reconciliation was signed marked the end of the war. On September 3, Colonel Caamaño presented his resignation as president constitutional, and began his provisional mandate as Héctor García Godoy became president provisional to govern the country during one year and call elections on June 1, 1966. It can be said that the institutional act was conditioned, and that the institutional demands that would have been desired by the constitutional constitucionalists were not achieved, what was however achieved indubitably was that the true recognition was made to the constitutional movement, and not to the government of reconstruction national.