Gringo’s 1989 coup

Second of three parts

As I detailed it in my book, Ideas, Principles and Lost Opportunities, the succeeding developments unfolded. The concept of the 1989 coup d’etat plan was to organize a government with a National Governing Council (NGC) composed of seven persons—three from the military and four civilians. The military was represented by Abenina as chairman and Zumel and Honasan as members. The three chose their civilian counterparts, without any power of veto from anyone of them for their respective choice.