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Former President of Venezuela and the Second Wallfacer — the strongman whose stated plan was a stellar-yield hydrogen bomb and whose secret plan was to use it on the Sun. Stoned to death in Plaza Bolivar by a crowd that learned the truth.
Rey Diaz is a survivor of three coup attempts who treats every conversation as the prelude to a fourth. He drinks hard and laughs harder and is, in private, much smarter than his enemies admit. His developing terror of the Sun — he cannot look at sunsets — is the one part of him that does not perform. His real plan, to crash a thousand stellar bombs into Mercury and trigger a chain reaction that engulfs the Solar System, is a strategist's elegant solution to a problem he has decided humanity cannot survive intact. He returns to Caracas to be welcomed as a hero. The crowd has already read the file.
A thickset Latin American man in his late fifties, wearing the open-collared white guayabera and tropical-weight blazer of a Caribbean head of state. Black hair going gray at the temples, a square heavy face, and the easy hand-on-shoulder body language of a populist. He sweats through everything.
Also known as: Diaz, El Presidente, 曼努尔·雷迪亚兹