[Japo]

I only played once. I tried to be centrist, and when I thought I had stabilized things enough I called elections, then the death squads from the Farsante appeared out of nowhere and assassinated every leftist candidate. These were powerless to defend themselves, because I had cracked down on the leftist guerrillas much harder simply because they were very active while the Farsante death squads had been apparently sleeping, until I called elections.

I think this game pushes you into cultivating one of the violent sides and bind your fortune to theirs and end up a dictator. The initial status quo heavily favors the right, although with your all-mighty powers as provisional president you can end up as Fidel Castro and crush them if you want. I suppose there must be a happy ending when you manage to hold some frigging elections, but it must be very hard and I gave up.