Manfredo Mañón: “fueron muchos oficiales de la Aviación que se negaron a asesinar al pueblo en 1965”
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Manfredo Mañón Vélez, a first lieutenant pilot in the Dominican Air Force in 1965, said that among the military personnel who opposed Juan Bosch's return to the presidency after the coup, not all were savages or criminals. He said some possessed a certain dignity and decorum, such as the Air Force chief, Juan (Pimpo) de los Santos Céspedes.
Mañón Vélez recounted that he and Air Force officer Melquiades Oviedo Durán Romero traveled to Barahona in April 1965 to try to garner support for the constitutionalists. However, he said that upon their return to San Cristóbal, they were arrested and taken to the Dominican Air Force officers' prison.
He stated that Pimpo de los Santos was the Chief of Staff and that they were not tortured, although attempts were made to persuade them to support the forces at San Isidro. They were given prison food, very bad, but it's very likely that the Chief of Staff saved the prisoners' lives, because his assistant was a decisive officer who gave orders for military attacks and battles to destroy the constitutionalists, while Pimpo de los Santos seemed hesitant and didn't appear so willing to follow orders to massacre the people.
"There were officers on the other side who were honest," said the officer who was detained for more than four months in the prison known as El Aguacatico, in San Isidro.
Manfredo Mañón Vélez was interviewed by journalist Fausto Rosario Adames on his program "¿Y tú…qué dices?" (And you…what do you say?), which airs daily on AcentoTV.
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Ese es una opinión válida que muchos compartirnos, y muchos creímos e intentamos hacer lo pudimos por un país mejor, y algunos nos rendimos, y nos fuimos. Quizás estemos equivocados en haber renunciado, pero un porcentaje representativo de los más de 1.5M de personas que conforman la diáspora, específicamente los que pertenecíamos a las clases más privilegiadas de RD, demuestra que quizás no estamos tan equivocados. En el lugar donde vivo, en mi grupo, a nadie le faltaba ni empleo, ni salud, ni vivienda, ni comida, ni educación, ni transporte, ni vestir, lo que nos faltaba era perspectiva. Algunos de seguridad, otros de progreso, y, en mi caso, de decencia, de no tener que estar cerrándole la puerta en la cara a la corrupción que ya venía tocando con insistencia.
Otro punto importante, EEUU es, por mucho, la nación más democrática sobre la faz de la tierra. Pero la democracia, como decía Barrack Obama en una entrevista, no es un viaje placentero. No es el paraíso en la tierra. Todo lo contrario, es un ambiente complejo en donde se debe ejercitar la tolerancia y en respeto al derecho ajeno. Especialmente en una nación con las características sociales de los EEUU. Y dentro de esa realidad de país, hay una distancia entre los del poder, que comenten abusos, por sus intereses, en lo nacional y en lo internacional, y los del pueblo, que no necesariamente están de acuerdo, al menos no en su totalidad. De ahí lo complicado de la democracia; pero es mejor que cualquier otro modelo de organización hasta el momento.
Mientras en EEUU, a pesar del racismo y la desigualdad que algunos grupos promueven e impulsan, como nación se promueve el respeto a su gente, a la dignidad. La mayoría de sus héroes son honrados con proveerles el bienestar mínimo y el reconocimiento merecido. En dominicana no se respetan ni las canas. Es una sociedad ingrata. Y hablo con conocimiento de causa.
Manfredo Mañón: “fueron muchos oficiales de la Aviación que se negaron a asesinar al pueblo en 1965”
Acento TV
10,437 views
Manfredo Mañón Vélez, a first lieutenant pilot in the Dominican Air Force in 1965, said that among the military personnel who opposed Juan Bosch's return to the presidency after the coup, not all were savages or criminals. He said some possessed a certain dignity and decorum, such as the Air Force chief, Juan (Pimpo) de los Santos Céspedes.
Mañón Vélez recounted that he and Air Force officer Melquiades Oviedo Durán Romero traveled to Barahona in April 1965 to try to garner support for the constitutionalists. However, he said that upon their return to San Cristóbal, they were arrested and taken to the Dominican Air Force officers' prison.
He stated that Pimpo de los Santos was the Chief of Staff and that they were not tortured, although attempts were made to persuade them to support the forces at San Isidro. They were given prison food, very bad, but it's very likely that the Chief of Staff saved the prisoners' lives, because his assistant was a decisive officer who gave orders for military attacks and battles to destroy the constitutionalists, while Pimpo de los Santos seemed hesitant and didn't appear so willing to follow orders to massacre the people.
"There were officers on the other side who were honest," said the officer who was detained for more than four months in the prison known as El Aguacatico, in San Isidro.
Manfredo Mañón Vélez was interviewed by journalist Fausto Rosario Adames on his program "¿Y tú…qué dices?" (And you…what do you say?), which airs daily on AcentoTV.
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Tune in to our channel on ClaroTV Cable Onda Oriental, Tele Enlace Digital, and Retevisa. Channels 39-439 HD on Altice Dominicana, channel 41 on Star Cable (Santiago), channel 508 HD on Telenord (San Francisco de Macorís), channel 455 HD on BloomTelecom (Higuey), channel 38 on WindTV, and channel 29 on Unicable.
Free streaming at http://acentotv.do/
Acento TV is a young, dynamic, and modern Dominican television channel that is constantly evolving.
Its essence is information and current affairs, with the mission of educating and entertaining a young and adult audience using contemporary technology and language.
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