Political Leaders on Tropico

The Government

Santa Dallante; President from 1949-1967

Carlos Vivian

Hector Rios

Raimundo de Vega- 2nd Generalissimo of the Tropican National Army (1950-1963)

Antonio Guerra- Head of the Catholic Church

Sanchez Lorca- Head of the Capital Party (1950-1956)

Sergio Garcia- Foreign Minister (1950-1964)

The Opposition

Donacino Ybara- General Secretary of the Communist Party & Head of the Opposition (1949-1954)

Nieves Ybara- Head of the union of Intellectuals (1948-1954)

The Rebels

Marcos Salazar- Generalissimo of Las Estrallas. (1951)

Other Characters

Ernesto Calaz

Pedro de Cruz

Diego

Cristos

President of Tropico and former General of the Tropican Army, a renowned populist and financial genius.Single-minded in his dedication to his people; the soldier-turned-President runs the country with an iron fist. Suppressing dissent with brutalisation and maintaining a massive military, Santa Dallante is the strongest in a long line of weak warlords and presidents.Head of El Servicio Nacional de Seguridad Popular. Santa Dallante's secret police and strong arm of the law. Famous for his good looks, discreetness, and single-minded dedication both to Dallante and to the mission at hand.his rise to power is littered with the bodies of those who attempted to stand in his way. Following the resolution of a long-running feud with Hector Rios, Carlos Vivian became Santa Dallante's right hand man in all matters.Carlos Vivian over-saw the bloody purge of post-1955 Tropico. Under Carlos' watchful eyes and iron fist an estimated 1500 people have been imprisoned, tortured, killed or made to vanish.Ex-guerrilla leader, Leader of the Nationalist Party and Cheif of Police in Tropico, a man feared for his bullish temper and ruthless streak.Hector Rios, behind his back, is known as "The Man who would be president", while leading the Nationalist Faction after his father’s death in 1936, Hector Rios earned a reputation as a ruthless megalomaniac. His forces captured the Capital in 1939 and for a few months, Hector ruled Pueblo Libre like a king. Following his flight from the capital, he spent the years of 1939-1949 running a guerrilla war in the south of the country against Communist forces.Hector Rios never truly gave up his Presidential dreams; rather he merely played his cards correct. That and somewhere in the jungles of Tropico is still buried 75% of the Nationalist arsenal. Santa Dallante brought him into the new government out of necessity to prevent a new civil war, rather than any trust or friendship between them.Oldest member of the Tropican Government at 56 years of age, he is a mellow and experienced veteran of decades of fighting. Unlike many members of the current Government, he is not obsessed with power; rather he holds deep religious and conservative convictions. Raimundo would rather die than see the island turned over to the Communist’s.He understands that he is too old to be President and yet holds immense power and so has tied himself firmly to upholding Dallante’s government. This makes me him the only truly loyal member of the Government.This doesn’t mean that Dallante’s trusts or respects him, rather the paranoid mind of Dallante’s looks upon De Vega with fear and he holds him in contempt.A man who loves his troops and spends much time in the barracks, nevertheless he demands and expects perfection from his men.The tightening of the governments power on Tropico has left him feeling uneasy and he quietly disagrees with many of the policies taken between 1954-1957.His role in the crushing of the strikers of 1956 earned him much hatred amongst the workers.He despises Carlos Vivian as a turn-coat and bootlicker and privately supported Hector Rios but knew he couldn’t move against Vivian.A peaceful and caring young man. Antonio played a valuable role in the Civil War. In the South of the country he negotiated a brief truce between the Communists and the Southern Nationalists. This truce saved hundreds of lives as people fled from the area in the stop in the violence.He has long worked in the community of Pueblo Libre and runs many church services.During the 1956 Purge of the Church, Antonio opened his Church to many people on the run and smuggled from 100 people out of the country. As a reward for his compassion he was one of the “12 of Pueblo Libre” arrested and thrown into jail. He was also the only man to stay in jail for the remainder of his sentence. He remained in jail from 1956 until 1960. Upon gaining his freedom, he returned to Pueblo Libre and published his prison diaries, which were censored originally by the government, before the Pope himself ordered their publication.Sanchez Lorca was the head of the Capital Party under Dallante and ran the Party for the President. During the early 1950’s he managed to increase membership by 34,000 people and established many youth programmes and propaganda campaigns.Slighted for promotion to Vice-President in 1956 he grew disillusioned and was then purged later that year. He served a jail sentence from 1956-1965A short portly man, Garcia was appointed as Foreign Minister in 1950 and held the post for fourteen years. His achievements during those 14 years are rare and he was mostly responsible for the influx of American business in the 1960’s. He also helped establish the tourism industry.In 1956 he avoided arrest in the purge of the Party and Government by hiding in a Church graveyard. He stayed hidden until the end of the purges and was reconciled into the government.A budding communist from a young age, Donacino fought in the Communist armies from 1932 to 1935. With the Nationalist offensive into southern Tropico, Donacino took the opportunity and fled to the USA; from there he re-located to Spain and became a fighter in the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War.With the victory of Franco in 1939, Donacino returned to a life-long habit of running and fled back to Tropico. Joining the resurgent Communist forces in the Northern Jungles, he operated as a political demagogue. After his time in Spain, Donacino vowed never to fight again and so turned to the political side of things. With the coming to power of Breago Salvador, Ybara moved into central Pueblo Libre and was Minister of Public Relations for three years. With Breago's death, he retired into the residential areas of the capital to raise his daughter.Over time people forgot his role as a communist and saw him more as a community man. His return to politics in the new republic of 1949 ended with his imprisonment in 1954.Nieves is the brilliant offspring of Donacino Ybara. A dyed in the wool liberal she lacks the political flair of her father, she instead pushes for democracy and human rights in the Republic. She runs the Union of Intellectuals, as the name suggest this is a union of the more liberal minded of the nation. Numbering some 400 authors, journalists, professors and socialists.A disillusioned Marxist, Marcos turned against the Government and re-started the civil war in 1951, his forces would run a campaign of kidnap and ambush for seven years killing 100 people before launching an offensive in 1957.His forces were eventually beaten back. Las Estrallas remains a threat in the jungles and has never surrendered.Personal secretary to Santa Dallante and in later life, advisor to the CIA on Hispanic and Caribbean DictatorsSmall time Communist party member, runner and activist. Father and Husband, went missing in 1954 and was never heard from again.Agent of the Secret Police on Tropicodiego's partner in Law-enforcement and anouther agent of the Secret Police