"Free bread! Freedom! Milk for the babies!" cried Fidel.
The uneducated, illiterate farmhands, knowing nothing about international geo-politics, screamed their approval.
Fidel then picks up a gun and proceeds to carry on a civil war. At first his Excellency his quite sure that his troops will put down this rebellion within a matter of days, even hours. But within months, there is no sign of the letup. His troops are close to exhaustion, underfed, underequipped, morale is at an all time low.
Fidel Lowbridge, in the meantime, has gotten stronger. He has found support amongst the peasants who are tired of hard work for little money and not being educated by their government. The peasants in greater numbers, join this funny looking revolutionary.
Three years later his Excellency flees the Republic before he could be captured and shot. Fidel takes over and rules the former Republic of Hammach (now renamed the People's Republic of Lowbridge),