 Enrique Lafourcade 's King Ahab 's Feast ( La Fiesta del rey Acab , 1959 ) portrays the fictional dictator César Alejandro Carrillo Acab , and opens with what Claude Hulet describes as an " amusingly ironic , tongue @-@ in @-@ cheek note in preface " which declares that " This is a mere work of fiction . ... Indeed , no one is unaware that neither the United Nations , nor the Organization of American States , permits the continued existence of regimes like the one that serves as pretext to this novel . " As Hulet observes , Lafourcade 's " powerful and razor sharp satire " is directed " presumably against the Trujillo regime and others like it . " 
