"Daniel Chavez, who has studied this game from a cultural studies standpoint, conceptualizes Tropico as a ludic variant of what in Latin American literature is known as ???the Dictator Novel,??? as cultivated by authors such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez, Miguel ??ngel Asturias and Augusto Roa Bastos, in reference to several dictatorial regimes prevalent in the region since acquirin" . . . . .