Overview
- Rebels seized the Army’s headquarters, the Patricios regiment, Batallón 601 and the TAMSE complex, unleashing urban combat with tanks that left 14 dead and more than 100 wounded.
- Abete outlines a failed plan to free Mohamed Alí Seineldín, blaming infiltration, defections and an accidental discharge that disrupted the timing and coordination.
- He denies responsibility for the deaths of Lt. Col. Hernán Pita and Maj. Federico Pedernera, stressing that courts could not determine who fired the fatal shots.
- Kohan recounts relaying Menem’s ultimatum of “unconditional surrender,” as loyal commanders, including Martín Balza and Martín Bonnet, opened fire on the insurgents.
- Coverage revisits a Linea 60 bus crushed by a tank with five fatalities, journalists wounded in the crossfire, hundreds detained, roughly 15 later convicted, and eventual 2003 pardons for figures such as Abete and Seineldín.