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This is Colonel Alvarez from "Tintin and the Picaros", Alvarez is Aide-De-Camp to General Tapioca, a Latin American dictator of the "banana republic" of San Theodoros. Throughout the Tintin books, the government of the republic constantly changes hands between leaders one of which is Tintins long term friend "General Alcazar". I plan to create more San Theodoros military pixel art, both Tapioca's and Alcazar's Regimes as there are quite a number of references in the comics and TV series.

A reference to the actual Colonel Alvarez in the comics: s33.postimg.org/iav6y8z3z/Colo…

During the comic, the Tapioca Regime arrests Tintins long term friend Madame Castafoire and Thomson and Thompson as well as implicating Captain Haddock, Tintin and Professor Calculus in a conspiracy. When they travel to San Theodoros to find out whats going on, they are greeted by Colonel Alvarez at the airport who takes them to a secure accommodation surrounded by military police guards under the guise of "precautions against terrorists" who are obviously Tintins friend Alcazars men. They eventually find out that the Bordurians, who are assisting Tapioca, are behind luring Tintin and his comrades to San Theodoros (From the insignia design in the comics, it would see Tapiocas symbol is two Bordurian "moustaches" upside down from each other with a dot in the middle as well as the car banners having a white moustache shape on the flag, possibly signifying Bordurian political influence and backing). Eventually following a inside job they manage to escape and join up with Alcazars Picaros who eventually lead a successful and quite swift revolution, overthrowing Tapioca far too easily than they should have. Alvarez quickly swaps allegiance to Alcazar to save his own neck.

San Theodoros is meant to be a satirical view on the revolutions in South America as well as obviously the Cuban Revolution where Tapioca was a satire on Batista, the United States Capitalist and CIA backed tyrannical dictator of Cuba before the revolution and Alcazar, based on Fidel Castro, the famous revolutionary. This is generally reflected in both Alcazars look and the uniforms of the Picaros, whilst the Tapioca Regime has oversized visor caps and lots of medals and gold, the Picaros have plain colour military fatigues and field caps. It's interesting to note however that Herge was quite an anti-socialist/communist as evident by his wildly bias "propaganda" comic "Tintin and the Land of the Soviets", widely considered to be his worst work ever produced, he also was a pretty staunch Royalist yet he for some reason made Alcazar a hero character who was friends with Tintin, despite Alcazar obviously having revolutionary ideaology reflecting Castro which seemed to go against Herge's political ideology so I'm not quite sure what he was thinking there, maybe because he made Tapioca the "Eastern" backed dictator and Alcazar was the "Western" backed dictator therefore that somehow makes it alright.

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This is Colonel Alvarez from "Tintin and the Picaros", Alvarez is Aide-De-Camp to General Tapioca, a Latin American dictator of the "banana republic" of San Theodoros. Throughout the Tintin books, the government of the republic constantly changes hands between leaders one of which is Tintins long term friend "General Alcazar". I plan to create more San Theodoros military pixel art, both Tapioca's and Alcazar's Regimes as there are quite a number of references in the comics and TV series.

A reference to the actual Colonel Alvarez in the comics: s33.postimg.org/iav6y8z3z/Colo…

During the comic, the Tapioca Regime arrests Tintins long term friend Madame Castafoire and Thomson and Thompson as well as implicating Captain Haddock, Tintin and Professor Calculus in a conspiracy. When they travel to San Theodoros to find out whats going on, they are greeted by Colonel Alvarez at the airport who takes them to a secure accommodation surrounded by military police guards under the guise of "precautions against terrorists" who are obviously Tintins friend Alcazars men. They eventually find out that the Bordurians, who are assisting Tapioca, are behind luring Tintin and his comrades to San Theodoros (From the insignia design in the comics, it would see Tapiocas symbol is two Bordurian "moustaches" upside down from each other with a dot in the middle as well as the car banners having a white moustache shape on the flag, possibly signifying Bordurian political influence and backing). Eventually following a inside job they manage to escape and join up with Alcazars Picaros who eventually lead a successful and quite swift revolution, overthrowing Tapioca far too easily than they should have. Alvarez quickly swaps allegiance to Alcazar to save his own neck.

San Theodoros is meant to be a satirical view on the revolutions in South America as well as obviously the Cuban Revolution where Tapioca was a satire on Batista, the United States Capitalist and CIA backed tyrannical dictator of Cuba before the revolution and Alcazar, based on Fidel Castro, the famous revolutionary. This is generally reflected in both Alcazars look and the uniforms of the Picaros, whilst the Tapioca Regime has oversized visor caps and lots of medals and gold, the Picaros have plain colour military fatigues and field caps. It's interesting to note however that Herge was quite an anti-socialist/communist as evident by his wildly bias "propaganda" comic "Tintin and the Land of the Soviets", widely considered to be his worst work ever produced, he also was a pretty staunch Royalist yet he for some reason made Alcazar a hero character who was friends with Tintin, despite Alcazar obviously having revolutionary ideaology reflecting Castro which seemed to go against Herge's political ideology so I'm not quite sure what he was thinking there, maybe because he made Tapioca the "Eastern" backed dictator and Alcazar was the "Western" backed dictator therefore that somehow makes it alright.