A Military Junta took power after desposing President Buenaventura. The members are Col. Sucre as chairman, his brother-in-law Col. Páez Guzmán as Minister of War, Col. Tarazona as Minister of Internal affairs and Dr. Mendoza as Chancellor.

Col. Sucre wants to modernize the country, more rights to the peasantly and becomes a popular leader, although he is not liked by the big American company that has interests on the country, but they are also problems in the gov. where Sucre is considered “too drastic” in his ideas; so he recurres to hegemony and lies to try to stay popular.

He is assassinated in the bathroom of a theater while a premiere and “the clues” and tortured suspects point out that it was planned by Tarazona, who is forced to exile

Now with only Mendoza in his way, Mendoza becomes Páez’s puppet under threat while Sucre’s image is exposed as a martyr and Páez become (under the excuse of political inestability) in the de facto president

GEISINGER