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San Theodoros
San Theodoros is a fictional country in "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is a banana republic under the yoke of military government located in Latin America. San Theodoros is depicted in "The Broken Ear" and "Tintin and the Picaros", and is referred to in "The Seven Crystal Balls" and "The Red Sea Sharks".
History.
The Spanish invaders founded the city of "Our Lady of Las Dopicos" in 1539, which
the inevitable parrot". The Lofficiers saw the adventure as a partial sequel to "The Broken Ear", which was also set in San Theodoros and which contained many of the same characters.
Thompson considered "Tintin and the Picaros" to be "Hergé's most overtly political book for many years" but felt that, unlike Hergé's earlier political works, "no campaigning element" is present. Peeters agreed, noting that "Tintin in the Picaros" is "a far cry from the denunciation of a political