Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Cast
Cantinflas
Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
Sonia Infante
Lolita
Guillermo Zetina
Lic. Don Tirso de la Pompa y Pompa, consejero
Tito Junco
General León Balarraza, agregado militar
Miguel Manzano
Don Serafín Templado, secretario
José Gálvez
Camarada Osky Popovsky, primer ministro
Víctor Alcocer
Almirante Neptuno Aguado, agregado naval
Maura Monti
Camarada Tania
Eduardo Alcaraz
Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos
Fernando Wagner
Representante de Salchichonia
Carlos Riquelme
Presidente de la República de Pepeslavia
Quintín Bulnes
Mayordomo Petrovsky
Eduardo MacGregor
Camarada Vasily Vasilov, ministro de relaciones exteriores