The day he was granted dictator powers and named El Presidente, Mountaindew called a citizen's meeting in front of his palace and gave a speech detailing his vision of Tropico.
First he ordered the construction of a pub and garage so he and his friends could go out, get drunk, then drive home to the palace.
After its completion, he went inside and proceeded to get drunk and knock out Commander Antigua in a bar fight that almost leveled the newly constructed bar.
After the repairs of the pub were completed, Mountaindew ordered the construction of a lavish "Presidential Square" just north of his palace to serve as a testament to his "awesomeness" as well as to give decent housing to his "homeys."
While the construction workers were working to satisfy our illustrious leader's every whim, our farmers were hard at work, struggling to bring enough food in to feed Tropico's population for the year. The revolution had disrupted food production and the storehouses were almost empty.
Of course, this was none of Mountaindew's concern. Upon the completion of Presidential Square he was so overjoyed that he declared the week "Tropico Week" and that there would be an annual feast held on this day to celebrate the Square's completion. During the feast Mountaindew singlehandedly ate enough food to last fourteen families for a month.
With 1951 came an important event. The Gringos and the Reds began some sort of scuffle called "The Korean War." Now we're not quite sure what a "korean" is but Tropican intellectuals seem to think it's a type of sandwich the two were arguing over. Anyway, the Reds offered to subsidize the buildup of the Tropican military for as long as the war was going on. Not that Mountaindew heard about that, the only reports he reads are those of his amigos scouting out women for him.
'51 also brought something else. While those in the capital were partying, those in the rural village of Macondo were starving. The teamsters, ordered to get more food for the Palace cellars had stripped the farmers of everything. And now they were beginning to die of a combination of malnutrition and poor living conditions.
Meanwhile there were houses in the capital that were completely unoccupied because Mountaindew didn't want them "stinking of manure."
Father Buendia (now working as a farmer to support his huge family) capitalized on the unrest by circling a petition to construct a church for the people of Tropico. There were an impressive number of signatures, however Mountaindew only read as far as new pub before he exclaimed that it was an "awesome idea" and left the room to talk to the construction workers.
And sure enough, he drove down to Macondo with a single construction worker and they, together, build a pub for the locals, with their own four hands. Quite touching really. Not only did it provide a supply of food for the locals but while, erm,
screening potential barmaids, Mountaindew met a very pretty lady whose company he very much enjoyed...
She managed to get him to pave the streets of Macondo as well as double the salaries of barmaids across Tropico, and allow them to live in the presidential houses he had constructed. However, just when things looked like they were about to improve...
The Gringos appeared.
They must think that crazy and communist are the same word because somehow they classified our Mountaindew as a Red. Now their warships are en route to the island for some good ol' fashioned gunboat diplomacy.
Now one theory is that this is the work of Tatiano Ortiz, leader of the Capitalist Faction and aquatince of Mr. Valisi. Mr Valisi (along with Comrade Sergei) disappeared soon after Mountaindew took power. This could be an attempted coup engineered by Ms. Ortiz to place Valisi in power. A picture of her is shown below.
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