This, such as it is, is Sotillo's dream-ideal; he is basically an allegory for
Greed in the novel. The "primitive" Latin American officials in the
book -- General Montero, Barrios, Sotillo -- are shown as paradoxically more innocent
and more directly brutal than their European counterparts. Their dream-ideals
rarely rise above simple plunder and gratification. The Goulds and Holroyds of
the world have dream-ideals that are much vaster and more complex, but in essentials
-- i.e., the need to impose them on others by force -- no different.