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In the 1890s, General Porfirio Diaz was at the height of his power, and making fun of him was not safe. That did not stop AndrCs de Hojeto, a political science graduate student with a taste for comedy, from using the persona of “General Perfidio” to mock the cronyism and repression of the Diaz regime. The police regularly arrested And& for minor, imaginary infractions of the law and the University expelled him. h d r & responded witheven harsher satire. Finally a gang of cops grabbed And& off the street, beat him and left him in an alley with several bones broken. That was when his sire noticed Andrks. The young satirist, dressed in his medallion-spangled “General Perfidio” coat, obscurely reminded Diego Diego of his mortal father, whom he had devoured at his own Embrace. Diego Diego felt that he somehow redressed this crime by rescuing AndrCs, feeding him vitae until he healed, and then Embracing him. 19 The deadly beating, mortal death and the blood of Malkav unhinged Andr6’ mind, and the Creation Rites sent him into the full-blown madness of the Malkavian untitrih. Andrks completely abandoned his former self. He became General Perfidio Dios, betrayer of all the laws of God and man. Over the decades, General Perfidio distinguished himself through his skills of satire, street theater and political sabotage. The Malkavian untitribu first waged a one-Cainite war on the Diaz regime. His methods ranged from forging strange and contradictory government directives to murdering and dismembering bureaucrats. When the Mexican Revolution began, Perfidio decided that he was satisfied and turned his attention to the Camarilla. Another decade of “revolutionary activities” against Camarilla princes won Perfidio leadership of a pack. After another fighting the Jyhad another 20 years, Perfidio and his pack settled down in Mexico City to train the next generation of warriors. Perfidio’s pack grew into a large coven, the Institutional Devolutionary Party, and the General himself received a promotion to bishop. General Perfidio enjoys a reputation as one of the Sabbat’s youngest masters of political subversion. He has made a systematic study of how governments crumble into incompetence and civil war, and advises other packs in how to attack Camarilla princes politically. Perfidio argues that invading a Camarilla-held city with guns blazing should be the last stage of a Jyhad, when the city’s “Kindred” are so fractured by suspicion, discontent and personal ambition that they cannot mount a meaningful defense. Sabbat coalitions that recruit the General as their political consultant win their Jyhads more often than not. The General lacks the rank to wield real power in the politics of Mexico City’s Sabbat, but quite a few neonates listen to him. Perfidio makes his rhetorical points through slapstick and satire: He leaves his audience laughing with scorn at the Camarilla and its dupes, and confident of victory against the Antediluvians. Not all of Perfidio’s ideas find wide acceptance, though. For 30 years, the General has warned about the sect’s dependence on revenants and argued that the Sabbat should not scorn to dirty its talons with business and politics. The minions of the Antediluvians use these tools; the Sabbat must take those tools away and claim them for its own ends. He puts his words into practice through business investments. Perfidio also meddles in city politics to protect communal havens, or simply to keep in practice by destroying a minor ministry. Cainites who listen to his political and economic arguments agree that Perfidio makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, the General argues with equal passion that the Ventrue Antediluvian wrote NAFTA and that snake-men from the Hollow Earth infiltrate the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Perfidio’s tendency to see conspiratorial hands in everything hurts his credibility with some Cainites.

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