History Characters / GhostReconWildlandsSantaBlancaCartel

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Is attacked twice during the game and slaughters his opponents personally.

* CardCarryingVillain: A DownplayedTrope example as Santa Blanca doesn't attempt to portray itself as anything BUT a cocaine cartel. In real-life, the cartels try to pretend to be legitimate businesses.

-> '''Voiced By:'''Octavio D'León [[spoiler:(decoy)]]

* FatalFlaw: Wrath and lack of mercy. El Sueño is a wrathful man incable of forgiving mistakes which brings the BadBoss tendencies to its devastating deconstruction: he orders many buchons, underbosses and even of the heads to be executed for their failures and eventually ends up without any trustworhty allies to help him. Most people would rather defect to the enemy rather than try to justify themselves and beg for a second chance since they know Sueño will kill them (if they're lucky) or mercilessly torture them. [[spoiler:In the bad ending his arrogance also proves to be quite literally fatal as his self sense of importance blinds him to the idea that someone would simply put a bullet into his head and this is what Bowman does when she snaps at the idea she has to let Sueño go.]]

* FatalFlaw: Wrath and lack of mercy. El Sueño is a wrathful man incable of forgiving mistakes which brings the BadBoss tendencies to its devastating deconstruction: he orders many buchons, underbosses and even of the heads to be executed for their failures and eventually ends up without any trustworhty allies to help him. Most people would rather defect to the enemy rather than try to justify themselves and beg for a second chance since they know Sueño will kill them (if they're lucky) or mercilessly torture them.

* BrainlessBeauty: His skull seems to have a lot of vacant space since his constant StupidEvil and DidNotThinkThisThrough tendencies gets to the point El Sueño orders his execution and he'd have been offed ''far'' earlier if he weren't blessed with, as Bowman herself puts it: the "sperm lottery".

[[folder: El Sueño]]

* BonusBoss: She is one of the two in the game, along with El Commandante.

* BonusBoss: He's an optional encounter, and unlike regular snipers, El Yeti does take cover very well.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Little Mouth]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The Air Smuggler]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The Assistant Chemist]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The Training Instructor]]

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:Due to his mental disability, he isn't able to fathom that what he is doing is wrong; its just something that the Cartel told him to do, and he does it, since his disability doesn't allow him to truly grasp that he is destroying dead (and sometimes not-so-dead) bodies and erasing evidence of the Cartel's atrocities.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is a oddball who has disposed of literally hundreds of corpses for the cartel, if not thousands. [[spoiler:Also a CloudCuckoolander who loves his teddy bear Pipon, but insists he's not afraid of the dark. He just worries the teddy bear will get lonely without him.]]

** TheDarkChick: El Cardenal, a SinisterMinister who was kicked out of the Catholic Church, but is able to run the philanthropy and propaganda campaigns that cultivate the Santa Blanca cartel's public image with the populace. Unlike the other Cartel leaders he's not directly tied to Santa Blanca's criminal operations and is in charge of legitimizing the Cartel in the eyes of the populace.

* GreaterScopeVillain: While El Sueño is the undisputed leader of the Cartel, even he answers to a group of unidentified "investors" in Mexico, who in one scene are shown over the phone expressing their dissatisfaction with Nidia Flores' operations. It's implied that Santa Blanca in Bolivia is just one arm of a much larger organization.

* TotalitarianGangsterism: Played completely straight, and they fully intend to take over ''an entire nation.'' Nothing happens in Bolivia without their permission. TruthInTelevision with many drug cartels who run their territory the exact same way.

* PragmaticVillainy: El Sueño does ''not'' like killing random civilians as a form of retaliation. Not because he's morally opposed to it, mind, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity but because it makes Santa Blanca look bad.]] [[spoiler: He orders La Plaga's execution for this reason.]] (In San Mateo you learn that Sueño has ordered his fair share of mass murder of civilians... the difference is, unlike La Plaga, ''he did it covertly rather than broadcast it to the world'', and did it to remove dissidents rather than to try to intimidate the populace at large.) He also doesn't tolerate any shortcuts that compromise the high quality of Santa Blanca's cocaine, as he's spent years building up Santa Blanca's brand as "a primo product for a primo price."

The head of the Santa Blanca Cartel. He is a former peasant farmer who worked his way up through the Santa Blanca cartel to become its head before conquering the nation of Bolivia through narco-terrorism.

* ShadowGovernment: The Conspirators type. They are ''the'' de facto government of Bolivia, holding no public positions of power but nevertheless are the most powerful people in Bolivia, and even the president is in their pocket.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Cocoa Farmer]]

An extremely popular (and supposedly cool, thus "el Chido") Narcocorrido singer on Santa Blanca's payroll.

* AntiVillain: El Chido is just a singer and correctly points out that nothing he's done is illegal. He's not even ideologically loyal to Santa Blanca, and just likes to sing and give his audience a good time. Unfortunately for him, the CIA still have full sanction to "disappear" him, so he folds ''really'' fast to make a deal with them and save his ass.
* TheCasanova: Even ''Bowman'' finds him incredibly sexy.

* TheHeroSucksSong: You can find a song that has him singing about the Ghosts.
* VillainSong: He composes songs that are ballads for the buchons of the cartel.

* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an unmasked Bane from Franchise/{{Batman}} combined with [[Film/{{Scarface}} alejandro Sosa]]. He also takes heavy inspiration from Pablo Escobar in how he runs the country as well as engages in narco terrorism and attempts to put on a charitable image. Unlike Escobar, he has little success in appearing friendly.

* LargeAndInCharge: At 7' 2" and 330 pounds, he's basically [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bane]] with a bunch of facial tattoos, and is almost a full head taller than anyone else in the game.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Unlike El Muro, who's extremely weary of making non-Mexicans into Bouchons (Bookhart being an exception due to having proved his worth as a badass), El Sueño has no problem elevating Bolivians like El Yayo or Madre Coca or even a white woman like La Gringa to buchon status. However, he represents a very dark twist on this trope, as Sueño is able to be so "tolerant" because he rules through fear and kills anyone who displeases him, in contrast to El Muro who seems to rule more through personal loyalty and thus feels the need to be more selective.

* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an unmasked Bane from Franchise/{{Batman}} combined, maybe, with [[Film/{{Scarface}} Tony Montana]]. He also takes heavy inspiration from Pablo Escobar in how he runs the country as well as engages in narco terrorism and attempts to put on a charitable image. Unlike Escobar, he has little success in appearing friendly.

* DealWithTheDevil: He views his deal with El Sueño as this, and tells Bowman that he views his deal with her and the CIA as another example too. Being a veteran cocalero who suffered under the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Bolivia#Plan_Dignidad Dignity Project]], he still views the US itself as a devil, quoting Bolivia's national hero to Bowman:

* UngratefulBastard: Bowman considers El Yayo and his family to be this, as they continue to be quite vitriolic towards her and the Ghosts even after they saved them from Santa Blanca. Holt's not happy at their attitude either. However, if you're familiar with the bloody history of American CIA intervention in Bolivia, [[spoiler:not to mention that the Ghost's actions directly led to El Yayo's grandson El Emisario's suicide]], their anger towards the Yanquis is actually pretty understandable. The game even points this out in one of the Kingslayer files in how the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Bolivia#Plan_Dignidad Dignity Project]] forced El Yayo into the cocaine business that he once despised. One of El Yayo's grandsons even angrily confronts Bowman with the memories of a 1996 cocalero protest that was violently suppressed on US orders to the Bolivian government.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: ''Nobody'' likes Madre Coca. When the Ghosts arrive, the cocaleros under her rule are on the verge of open revolt, and even the other cartel members seem to have an intense dislike of her. [[spoiler: When the Production part of the cartel is taken down, Madre Coca is shown being dragged through the streets, Mussolini-style.]]

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: It is mentioned that some of Santa Blanca's sicarios are ex-military. Santa Blanca also employs ex-military types to train their sicarios, including ex-special forces from South Africa, Israel, Russia and the United States.

* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Subverted as El Yayo and La Gringa hate each other, Nidia Flores hates El Pulpo, La Santera argues with El Cardenal, and everyone hates DJ Perico but El Sueño, who finds Perico genuinely amusing, and El Boquita, who is loves Perico's show.

** TheEvilGenius: El Yayo, [[TheQuisling a Bolivian who joined the Santa Blanca cartel when they arrived in the country from Mexico]], and is in charge of producing the drugs the Santa Blanca cartel deals in. Like El Cardenal, he has no interest in the Cartel's more violent operations and only cares about producing the best cocaine possible in keeping with the traditions of his people.

* CardCarryingVillain: A DownplayedTrope example as Santa Blanca doesn't attempt to portray itself as anything BUT a cocaine cartel. In real-life, the cartels pretende to be legitimate businesses.

* AffablyEvil: Pretends to be this but are actually FauxAffablyEvil.