In 1986 general Vargas aired in public grievances and denounced actions of the president's inner circle of power in the procurement of a Fokker F-28 aircraft for flag carrier TAME.

A video of the actions of the morning at Manta was shown to the officer corps in Taura that showed general Vargas in a state of inebriation and out of his normal self.

In the morning of the following day general Vargas flew to the Air Base in Quito in an attempt to initiate a dialogue with officers of the Army and Navy.

After a legislative resolution of amnesty for Vargas that president Febres Cordero refused to publish in the Official Registry, tensions in the political landscape were high.

In the last hours of the evening the president had ordered by telephone the release of General Vargas and through his personal secretary in the capital Quito had authorized public statements of the events.