History Characters / GhostReconWildlands

[[Characters/GhostReconWildlandsUSPersonnel The Ghosts and US Personnel]]

[[Characters/GhostReconWildlandsSantaBlancaCartel Santa Blanca Cartel]]

[[Characters/GhostReconWildlandsUNIDADAndKataris26 UNIDAD and Kataris 26]]

[[Characters/GhostReconWildlandsDLC Narco Road and Fallen Ghosts Characters]]

[[Characters/GhostReconOther Other Characters]]

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[[folder: Other Characters]]
!! The Predator

The titular extraterrestrial hunter from the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise. The Predator's depiction in ''Wildlands'' is primarily based on [[Film/{{Predator}} the first film in the series]]. It appears his spaceship has crash-landed in Bolivia and he's been taking advantage of the regional chaos to hunt combatants from all sides in the conflict.
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* BonusBoss: He's an optional encounter and ''a lot'' tougher than any other opponent in the game.
* GuestFighter: A rather unexpected one, though one that somewhat fits with the jungle warfare aesthetic of the game.
* LaserSight: His plasma caster has a prominent one when he's aiming it at you. It lets you know that you need to get into cover ''immediately''.
* MadeOfIron: It takes about 22 shots from the HTI .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle to kill him. Bear in mind the HTI is the most powerful normal (non-Tier 1) weapon in the game and can kill any other infantry unit, including the most durable boss, with one shot to the pinky toe.
* OneHitKill: Both his plasma-caster and smart disc will knock you into the dying state with one hit.
* TeleportSpam: His primary fighting style is this; cloaking, using his superhuman jumping ability to leap around the area, and unclocking to attack.
* TurnsRed: The Predator's attacks become increasingly more frequent as he takes more damage.
* VisibleInvisibility: Fitting, considering he's one of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]].
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[[Characters/GhostReconWildlandsDLC DLC Characters]]

[[folder: Narco Road]]

!!El Invisible[=/=]El Zamuro[=/=][[spoiler:Mr. Sonrisa]][=/=][[spoiler:Jose Vargas]]
The BigBad of the ''Narco Road'' DLC campaign, El Invisible is the mysterious chief coordinator behind Santa Blanca's smuggling network. No one knows El Invisible's identity or even what he[=/=]she looks like, as they are a master hacker who never deals with anyone face-to-face and uses a voice modulator to conceal their identity.

* DiabolicalMastermind: His actions are much more "next-level supervillain shit" compared to the Cartel bosses from the main game.
* TheFaceless: No one knows what El Invisible looks like.
* FinalBoss: Of the ''Narco Road'' DLC. He fights you in an AceCustom military helicopter that's significantly more durable than normal. He's also the only boss of the DLC who isn't a CutsceneBoss.
** PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The ''real'' El Invisible is assassinated in the epilogue, living in a humble shack in the Grand Canyon without any security or protection other than a pistol. You basically just kick in his door and blow him away.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: His [[spoiler: hacking of the CIA's mainframe and divulging all of their dirty laundry on the internet]] results in the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros mercenary group to help purge all CIA spies operating inside their country, leading to the events of ''Fallen Ghosts''.
* ManipulativeBastard[=/=]TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were AllAccordingToPlan for him, as he ''wanted'' you to steal his PDA and bring it back to CIA headquarters so the virus hidden inside it could hack their network.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were all set up by El Invisible so he could hack the CIA's servers and disclose all their dirty laundry over the internet. It's strongly implied he did this as revenge for a loved one, "Rosebud", who was an innocent bystander killed during a CIA operation. The CIA, in turn, hunt him down and execute him as revenge for screwing with them.]]
* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: The real El Invisible turns out to be Mr. Sonrisa, the informant who's been helping you throughout the DLC. He was manipulating you all along.]]

!! Eddie Escovado
The leader of the "Los Kamikazes" gang, a boisterous, adrenaline-addicted playboy and social media star.
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* AffablyEvil: Eddie's very friendly towards you throughout your time working for him, although sometimes obnoxiously so. Even when you turn on him at the end, he only remarks that your behavior is "kinda rando" but still compliments your bravado.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: When he learns that he is about to be captured by the CIA mid-skydive, he opts to film himself taking off his parachute backpack and free falling to death, claiming it to be "immortalization".]]
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with both hands to the Ghost [[spoiler: while free falling to his death]].
* HookersAndBlow: Is a fan of both, stating his fondness for the former when introducing himself.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Although nominally a gang leader, Eddie never actually seems to actually take part in any of Santa Blanca's criminal activities, instead spending all his time partying. He ''buys'' plenty of drugs for his parties, but doesn't seem to be involved in the actual drug business.
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: After his suicide, he is found dead on his private beach face down, with his butt protruding upwards ''a la'' Johnny Sasaki despite slamming into the sand at terminal velocity.]]
* TheStoner: Is obviously high whenever you meet him, even in the middle of an UNIDAD ambush.
* SlaveToPR: ''Everything'' he does is for the sake of increasing his social media views. [[spoiler: Even his suicide.]]
* TalkativeLoon: Incessantly attempts to make [[OrphanedPunchline bizarre]] [[TooMuchInformation conversations]] with the Ghost [[spoiler: while being driven away from an UNIDAD ambush]].

!! Arturo Rey

The leader of the "Death Riders" motorcycle gang and a fanatical believer in Santa Muerte.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: After he fails to kill the Ghost, he sets himself on fire and rides off on his motorcycle to his death.]]
* BlingBlingBang: He fights with a gold-plated Desert Eagle during the UNIDAD raid against his HQ in one of the missions where you work for him.
* CoolBike: Owns one with an exhaust system that makes the rear wheel appear to be engulfed in flames.
* Cult: His motorcycle gang doubles as one for Santa Muerte.
* CutsceneBoss: While all the ''Narco Road'' bosses are disposed of in cutscenes, Rey's the only one who actually fights the Ghost, [[spoiler: getting into a short melee duel with the Ghost before taking a scythe to the shoulder and deciding to set himself on fire and ride off into the sunset.]]
* HellSeeker: By the time the Ghost meets him, he is convinced that Santa Muerte wishes for him to personally serve her in hell. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for those around him, he's looking for servants for himself in hell as well.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Attempts to get servants in hell by blowing up hundreds of civilians and later trying to kill the Ghost. He fails both times due to the Ghost.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How he ultimately dies.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Is remarkably unfazed by having a scythe lodged in his arm by the Ghost.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: Once his gang members discover his HumanSacrifice plot, they take the side of the Ghost over him, opening up an opportunity for the Ghost to take him down. In fact he had so much trouble getting enough Santa Blanca members to agree to his crazy mass murder scheme that he ends up having to hire Los Sin Almas gang members instead to carry out his plan.]]

!! Tonio Mateos
The loud and obnoxious leader of the "Crazy Riders" muscle car gang, who speaks exclusively in hip hop rhythm.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Suffers this when the Ghost shoots him while he's piloting a plane.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Comes with his mode of speaking.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is constantly threatening the Ghost even while they're getting work done for him.
* JerkAss: While the DLC's other two gang leaders are both AffablyEvil towards you, Tonio insults and belittles you throughout your entire time working for him. Once you finally seem to earn his respect, it literally takes him less than half a minute to decide you're a threat to his power and challenge you to a showdown.
* JiveTurkey: Always speaks like he is rapping.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Doesn't get to finish describing what he intends to do to the Ghost when he gets shot.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fallen Ghosts]]

!! Los Extranjeros

A South American [=PMC=] composed of elite soldiers from across Latin America. They were hired by UNIDAD to help them purge Bolivia of CIA influence, however they took the opportunity to take over the cocaine production infrastructure left over after the downfall of Santa Blanca.
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* AnimalMotifs: Their logo consists of a roaring jaguar in front of a combat knife and a silhouette of South America and their combat uniform camouflage consists of yellow, black and gray spots, dots, camo stripes and solid colors.
* ContinuityNod: Los Extranjeros are a Latin-American [=PMC=] utilizing gear and deploying soldiers who are on a similar level to the Ghosts, which is similar to the unnamed group of Latin-American mercenaries encountered towards the end of ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2''. They also use troops that have mobile jammers that inflict InterfaceScrew on your HUD, which is similar to the mobile jammers in both ''Advanced Warfighter'' games and the jamming effect in the ''Future Soldier'' mission "Ember Hunt". Finally, they have troops that use [[InvisibilityCloak active camouflage]] like the Ghosts and Bodark do in ''Future Soldier''.
* EliteMooks: The Los Extranjeros are to UNIDAD what UNIDAD are to Santa Blanca. They also have a number of specialist units, including elite snipers and drone jammer troops. Also, their Covert Ops and Armored units are likely the most dangerous infantry units in the entire game.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Los Extranjeros" translates to "The Foreigners", a fitting if enigmatic title given they're an international [=PMC=].
* InvisibilityCloak: One class of Los Extranjeros utilizes active camouflage like the Ghosts themselves do in ''Ghost Recon: Future Soldier''. They have no presence on the mini-map when cloaked either and can only be seen through thermal vision.
* OneHitKill: Both their Elite Snipers and Covert Ops units can take you down to 1% health in one shot on normal difficulty and straight up kill you in one shot on the higher difficulties.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: They were hired by the Bolivian government to reinforce UNIDAD and to eliminate or subdue the remnants of the Kataris 26, the Santa Blanca cartel and to kill any CIA agents in the country.
* PsychoForHire: The Los Extranjeros commanders, natch. One is using slave labor to restart Bolivia's cocaine production, another is persecuting Bolivia's Christian population and a third is having Santa Blanca mooks fight to the death for his entertainment.

!! Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo
The commander of Los Extranjeros and the main antagonist of the DLC.
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* BigBad: As the leader of the Los Extranjeros, he's this for the ''Fallen Ghosts'' DLC.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Fallen Ghosts'', as well as of the ''Ghost Recon Wildlands'' story as a whole.
* FlatCharacter: Merlo only has one or two lines of dialogue and you learn very little about him or his personality other than him being the leader of Los Extrajneros, a former war criminal of South America's many brushfire conflicts, and the game's final assassination target.
* FlunkyBoss: Colonel Merlo's a pretty standard opponent (he doesn't even have boss-level health and dies in just a couple shots), but you'll have to fight your way through an army of UNIDAD and Los Extranjeros troops including a fair share of EliteMooks to get to him.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Downplayed, he does fight back but with just a handgun and he is not even behind cover once you kick on the door. Even his lowly mooks give you a lot more trouble than he do. Nothing compared to his lieutenants who give you a hell of a fight.

!! Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro"

A leader of Los Extranejeros and in charge of rebuilding the cocaine trade.
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* ColdSniper: Being a Covert Ops specialist, he even has the reputation. Most of his men also never had ever seen him in person.
* DirtyCoward: When you finally come after him, he runs off and you have to chase after him, eventually cornering him on top of a mountain. Since he's a Covert Ops unit equipped with a cloaking device, hunting him down is more complicated than usual.
* FlatCharacter: He don't have any speaking line unlike the other.
* KingMook: Of the Covert Ops
* ManipulativeBastard: He stands out from the others that he does the least KickTheDog of the three, mostly 'just' slave labor instead of pointless killing. But he performs well in it, the drug trafficking is back on business. He also operates from the shadows, both literally and figuratively.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Captain Ortega; Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine, while Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Downplayed; Rocha is mostly known for using slave labor to restore Santa Blanca's cocaine infrastructure, but it's not dwelled on as much as Captain Cruzar's massacre of Bolivian Christians.


!! Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso"

A leader of the Los Extranjeros and the one in charge of eliminating Santa Blanca's remnants.
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* BadBoss: When you encounter one of the kill list board, you can see in addition to killing civilians, he sometimes kill his own men who isn't up to his standards.
* BloodKnight: The main reason he loves his GladiatorGames. When the Ghosts mess up his operations big time, he just couldn't resist and challenges the Ghosts personally through the radio.
* BossBanter: Once you got his attention, he starts taunting the Ghosts through the radio.
* DuelBoss: You can't call your rebel backup during his boss fight. The gladiator area even take place in a forest area where it is almost impossible to bring a vehicle in.
* GladiatorGames: He runs a gladiatorial arena where former Santa Blanca sicarios fight each other to the death, in order to select out potential recruits for Los Extranjeros. To assassinate him, you're forced into the arena where you have to fight off waves of sicarios until Ortega and his squad finally show themselves.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: He's an Armored unit and therefore can only be killed with several headshots.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He keeps a kill count on how many rebels he and his men has killed.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: One of the Ghosts point out that many of his targets are ex-Santa Blanca, and that at least he is doing one thing right.
* KingMook: He is one to the Armored Los Extranjeros.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Major Rocha; Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast, while Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine.
* TheSpartanWay: His GladiatorGames are his way of obtaining the best possible recruits for Los Extranjeros
* WolfPackBoss: He's an Armored unit that fights you alongside a handful of other Armored units as well as a Drone Jammer.

!! Captain Dante Cruzar, "O Diabo"

A murderous psychopath who is committing crimes against the Bolivian Christian population for no reason.
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* AxCrazy: The main reason he got fired from his previous job, he is just too bloodthirsty.
* CrushingThePopulace: In contrast to Santa Blanca's VillainWithGoodPublicity campaign, Cruzar uses pure terror tactics to ensure submission, massacring entire villages and desecrating holy sites to intimidate the populace into believing that Los Extranjeros are unkillable demons.
* DoomTroops: His specialty, while Los Extranjeros already look scary enough, he is the one who makes use of this to spread terror and make the people too afraid to fight back.
* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the only reason he does anything he does.
* HollywoodAtheist: He's targeting the Bolivian Christians in the region on the simple basis that they are religious, and is doing everything from engaging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to the destruction of religious icons. When confronted by the Ghosts, he taunts them by drawing them to a church where he's slaughtered several civilians, sarcastically mocking their belief in "God's protection" and declares that no man or God can judge him.
* KingMook: He one is to the Footman Extranjeros.
* ShroudedInMyth: Many people believe he and his men are unkillable, also why he is nicknamed "O Diabo" (The Devil).
* TheDreaded: While Rocha and Ortega are feared by the people in their own ways, they are both pale compared to Cruzar. He also [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]] a lot more than both of them combined, like pointlessly massacring a whole village just to make a point to the Ghosts.
* WolfpackBoss: Unlike Major Rocha or Captain Ortega, Captain Cruzar is a standard infantry unit (though he does have somewhat enhanced health), but he's accompanied by a ''massive'' death squad made up of EliteMooks that assault your position after leading you into an ambush. A really massive one at that which include armed vehicles support in a place with little cover.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!! The Predator

The titular extraterrestrial hunter from the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise. The Predator's depiction in ''Wildlands'' is primarily based on [[Film/{{Predator}} the first film in the series]]. It appears his spaceship has crash-landed in Bolivia and he's been taking advantage of the regional chaos to hunt combatants from all sides in the conflict.
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[[folder:UNIDAD]]

The Bolivian military police that used to fight the cartel but have since made an alliance with them.

* EliteMooks: Since the UNIDAD forces started out as a paramilitary force, they are better armed and equipped then the average cartel grunts. In fact the basic UNIDAD soldier is as tough as the Cartel's Elite Mooks.
* EnemyCivilWar: Santa Blanca may have UNIDAD on their payroll, but it's not exactly a firm alliance and both sides are quite willing to shoot at each other. In addition, some random encounters have Santa Blanca sicarios being held prisoner by UNIDAD forces.
* FacelessGoons: Most UNIDAD soldiers wear face concealing balaclava.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: UNIDAD is a paramilitary organisation originally set up by the Bolivian government to combat drug cartels, but now it is on Santa Blanca's payroll.
* OnlySixFaces: UNIDAD officers have a limited number of face models, even though ''several of them take part in in-game cutscenes'', which ends up giving the impression that UNIDAD is some kind of CloneArmy.
* RespawningEnemies: While they are tougher than Cartel Sicarios, the biggest threat posed by UNIDAD forces is the fact that, unless they're killed in stealth, fighting them will immediately trigger a UNIDAD alert resulting in infinite waves of UNIDAD reinforcements of steadily increasing difficulty.

!General Baro

The Bolivian Major General in charge of UNIDAD. He brokered the deal between Santa Blanca and the Bolivian government.

* AFatherToHisMen: He cares for the men under his command, and after his capture, laments that the soldiers the Ghosts killed while doing so were good men.
* AntiVillain: Baro is a genuine patriot who only made a deal with the Cartel in order to avert further bloodshed once it became clear they were too entrenched and powerful for UNIDAD to defeat. He's even been trying to act against the Cartel once it became clear the violence and brutality they're inflicting upon Bolivia is just as bad as it would be if there was open war.
* DealWithTheDevil: Santa Blanca didn't try to moderate its activities after they made a deal with UNIDAD but made them much much worse.
* MoralityPet: His daughter is one to him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction to the Santa Blanca takeover of his country.
* PapaWolf: His response to the Ghosts finding and forcing his daughter to call him? Set up an ambush.
* PuppetKing: Despite being the commanding officer of UNIDAD, Baro has lost control of much of the organization, with many of his officers pursuing their own agenda and making deals with the Cartel, which also partially explains why UNIDAD continues to be just as hostile to you even after you [[spoiler: succeed in forming an alliance with him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Despite threatening his daughter to draw him out, then kidnapping him, the Ghosts still treat Baro with the respect due to an officer of his rank. Though this is partly due to military courtesy and partly due to the Ghosts wanting to gain his assistance against the Cartel.

!"El Comandante" a.k.a. Lt. Colonel [[spoiler: Miguel De los Montreros]]

A lieutenant-colonel in UNIDAD, El Comandante is a legendary soldier, working closely with Santa Blanca. He and his men are responsible for the destruction of rebel forces in the area of Media Luna and turning it into a UNIDAD stronghold. He keeps his identity a tightly-controlled secret, and wears a black ballistic mask at all times. The Ghosts face him in the "UNIDAD Conspiracy" DLC.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite his impressive-looking armor and reputation as a legendary soldier, El Comandante isn't any tougher than any other normal boss in the game when you finally start gunning for him. Weaver even quips "Guess he wasn't as badass as he thought!" when you blow him away. The real challenge is that you have to hunt him down in the midst of a massive UNIDAD base swarming with soldiers.
* {{Archenemy}}: Is this to the rebels, having more or less defeated them by the time of the game.
* BonusBoss: Like La Cabra, he's a DLC assassination target and not part of the game's normal main quest progression.
* ColonelBadass: How he portrays himself. He's more like a FakeUltimateHero.
* TheFaceless: He's never without his black ballistic mask, even wearing it in official military documentation papers.
* EnemyMine: El Sueño does not like having a member of UNIDAD working so closely with the cartel, and would generally prefer to keep them out of cartel operations entirely. [[spoiler: It's later revealed he was justified in his suspicions; El Comandante is actively looking for ways to disrupt or destroy Santa Blanca to take over the cocaine trade himself.]]
* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler: He turns out to be the son of one of Bolivia's top leaders, having been sent down to Cartel territory to covertly usurp Santa Blanca's cocaine production infrastructure away from them.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: To conceal his identity he wears a black ballistic mask with red paint on it that resembles claw marks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Narco Road]]

!!El Invisible[=/=]El Zamuro[=/=][[spoiler:Mr. Sonrisa]][=/=][[spoiler:Jose Vargas]]
The BigBad of the ''Narco Road'' DLC campaign, El Invisible is the mysterious chief coordinator behind Santa Blanca's smuggling network. No one knows El Invisible's identity or even what he[=/=]she looks like, as they are a master hacker who never deals with anyone face-to-face and uses a voice modulator to conceal their identity.

* DiabolicalMastermind: His actions are much more "next-level supervillain shit" compared to the Cartel bosses from the main game.
* TheFaceless: No one knows what El Invisible looks like.
* FinalBoss: Of the ''Narco Road'' DLC. He fights you in an AceCustom military helicopter that's significantly more durable than normal. He's also the only boss of the DLC who isn't a CutsceneBoss.
** PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The ''real'' El Invisible is assassinated in the epilogue, living in a humble shack in the Grand Canyon without any security or protection other than a pistol. You basically just kick in his door and blow him away.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: His [[spoiler: hacking of the CIA's mainframe and divulging all of their dirty laundry on the internet]] results in the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros mercenary group to help purge all CIA spies operating inside their country, leading to the events of ''Fallen Ghosts''.
* ManipulativeBastard[=/=]TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were AllAccordingToPlan for him, as he ''wanted'' you to steal his PDA and bring it back to CIA headquarters so the virus hidden inside it could hack their network.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were all set up by El Invisible so he could hack the CIA's servers and disclose all their dirty laundry over the internet. It's strongly implied he did this as revenge for a loved one, "Rosebud", who was an innocent bystander killed during a CIA operation. The CIA, in turn, hunt him down and execute him as revenge for screwing with them.]]
* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: The real El Invisible turns out to be Mr. Sonrisa, the informant who's been helping you throughout the DLC. He was manipulating you all along.]]

!! Eddie Escovado
The leader of the "Los Kamikazes" gang, a boisterous, adrenaline-addicted playboy and social media star.

* AffablyEvil: Eddie's very friendly towards you throughout your time working for him, although sometimes obnoxiously so. Even when you turn on him at the end, he only remarks that your behavior is "kinda rando" but still compliments your bravado.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: When he learns that he is about to be captured by the CIA mid-skydive, he opts to film himself taking off his parachute backpack and free falling to death, claiming it to be "immortalization".]]
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with both hands to the Ghost [[spoiler: while free falling to his death]].
* HookersAndBlow: Is a fan of both, stating his fondness for the former when introducing himself.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Although nominally a gang leader, Eddie never actually seems to actually take part in any of Santa Blanca's criminal activities, instead spending all his time partying. He ''buys'' plenty of drugs for his parties, but doesn't seem to be involved in the actual drug business.
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: After his suicide, he is found dead on his private beach face down, with his butt protruding upwards ''a la'' Johnny Sasaki despite slamming into the sand at terminal velocity.]]
* TheStoner: Is obviously high whenever you meet him, even in the middle of an UNIDAD ambush.
* SlaveToPR: ''Everything'' he does is for the sake of increasing his social media views. [[spoiler: Even his suicide.]]
* TalkativeLoon: Incessantly attempts to make [[OrphanedPunchline bizarre]] [[TooMuchInformation conversations]] with the Ghost [[spoiler: while being driven away from an UNIDAD ambush]].

!! Arturo Rey

The leader of the "Death Riders" motorcycle gang and a fanatical believer in Santa Muerte.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: After he fails to kill the Ghost, he sets himself on fire and rides off on his motorcycle to his death.]]
* BlingBlingBang: He fights with a gold-plated Desert Eagle during the UNIDAD raid against his HQ in one of the missions where you work for him.
* CoolBike: Owns one with an exhaust system that makes the rear wheel appear to be engulfed in flames.
* Cult: His motorcycle gang doubles as one for Santa Muerte.
* CutsceneBoss: While all the ''Narco Road'' bosses are disposed of in cutscenes, Rey's the only one who actually fights the Ghost, [[spoiler: getting into a short melee duel with the Ghost before taking a scythe to the shoulder and deciding to set himself on fire and ride off into the sunset.]]
* HellSeeker: By the time the Ghost meets him, he is convinced that Santa Muerte wishes for him to personally serve her in hell. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for those around him, he's looking for servants for himself in hell as well.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Attempts to get servants in hell by blowing up hundreds of civilians and later trying to kill the Ghost. He fails both times due to the Ghost.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How he ultimately dies.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Is remarkably unfazed by having a scythe lodged in his arm by the Ghost.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: Once his gang members discover his HumanSacrifice plot, they take the side of the Ghost over him, opening up an opportunity for the Ghost to take him down. In fact he had so much trouble getting enough Santa Blanca members to agree to his crazy mass murder scheme that he ends up having to hire Los Sin Almas gang members instead to carry out his plan.]]

!! Tonio Mateos
The loud and obnoxious leader of the "Crazy Riders" muscle car gang, who speaks exclusively in hip hop rhythm.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Suffers this when the Ghost shoots him while he's piloting a plane.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Comes with his mode of speaking.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is constantly threatening the Ghost even while they're getting work done for him.
* JerkAss: While the DLC's other two gang leaders are both AffablyEvil towards you, Tonio insults and belittles you throughout your entire time working for him. Once you finally seem to earn his respect, it literally takes him less than half a minute to decide you're a threat to his power and challenge you to a showdown.
* JiveTurkey: Always speaks like he is rapping.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Doesn't get to finish describing what he intends to do to the Ghost when he gets shot.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fallen Ghosts]]

!! Los Extranjeros

A South American [=PMC=] composed of elite soldiers from across Latin America. They were hired by UNIDAD to help them purge Bolivia of CIA influence, however they took the opportunity to take over the cocaine production infrastructure left over after the downfall of Santa Blanca.

* AnimalMotifs: Their logo consists of a roaring jaguar in front of a combat knife and a silhouette of South America and their combat uniform camouflage consists of yellow, black and gray spots, dots, camo stripes and solid colors.
* ContinuityNod: Los Extranjeros are a Latin-American [=PMC=] utilizing gear and deploying soldiers who are on a similar level to the Ghosts, which is similar to the unnamed group of Latin-American mercenaries encountered towards the end of ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2''. They also use troops that have mobile jammers that inflict InterfaceScrew on your HUD, which is similar to the mobile jammers in both ''Advanced Warfighter'' games and the jamming effect in the ''Future Soldier'' mission "Ember Hunt". Finally, they have troops that use [[InvisibilityCloak active camouflage]] like the Ghosts and Bodark do in ''Future Soldier''.
* EliteMooks: The Los Extranjeros are to UNIDAD what UNIDAD are to Santa Blanca. They also have a number of specialist units, including elite snipers and drone jammer troops. Also, their Covert Ops and Armored units are likely the most dangerous infantry units in the entire game.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Los Extranjeros" translates to "The Foreigners", a fitting if enigmatic title given they're an international [=PMC=].
* InvisibilityCloak: One class of Los Extranjeros utilizes active camouflage like the Ghosts themselves do in ''Ghost Recon: Future Soldier''. They have no presence on the mini-map when cloaked either and can only be seen through thermal vision.
* OneHitKill: Both their Elite Snipers and Covert Ops units can take you down to 1% health in one shot on normal difficulty and straight up kill you in one shot on the higher difficulties.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: They were hired by the Bolivian government to reinforce UNIDAD and to eliminate or subdue the remnants of the Kataris 26, the Santa Blanca cartel and to kill any CIA agents in the country.
* PsychoForHire: The Los Extranjeros commanders, natch. One is using slave labor to restart Bolivia's cocaine production, another is persecuting Bolivia's Christian population and a third is having Santa Blanca mooks fight to the death for his entertainment.

!! Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo
The commander of Los Extranjeros and the main antagonist of the DLC.

* BigBad: As the leader of the Los Extranjeros, he's this for the ''Fallen Ghosts'' DLC.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Fallen Ghosts'', as well as of the ''Ghost Recon Wildlands'' story as a whole.
* FlatCharacter: Merlo only has one or two lines of dialogue and you learn very little about him or his personality other than him being the leader of Los Extrajneros, a former war criminal of South America's many brushfire conflicts, and the game's final assassination target.
* FlunkyBoss: Colonel Merlo's a pretty standard opponent (he doesn't even have boss-level health and dies in just a couple shots), but you'll have to fight your way through an army of UNIDAD and Los Extranjeros troops including a fair share of EliteMooks to get to him.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Downplayed, he does fight back but with just a handgun and he is not even behind cover once you kick on the door. Even his lowly mooks give you a lot more trouble than he do. Nothing compared to his lieutenants who give you a hell of a fight.

!! Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro"

A leader of Los Extranejeros and in charge of rebuilding the cocaine trade.

* ColdSniper: Being a Covert Ops specialist, he even has the reputation. Most of his men also never had ever seen him in person.
* DirtyCoward: When you finally come after him, he runs off and you have to chase after him, eventually cornering him on top of a mountain. Since he's a Covert Ops unit equipped with a cloaking device, hunting him down is more complicated than usual.
* FlatCharacter: He don't have any speaking line unlike the other.
* KingMook: Of the Covert Ops
* ManipulativeBastard: He stands out from the others that he does the least KickTheDog of the three, mostly 'just' slave labor instead of pointless killing. But he performs well in it, the drug trafficking is back on business. He also operates from the shadows, both literally and figuratively.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Captain Ortega; Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine, while Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Downplayed; Rocha is mostly known for using slave labor to restore Santa Blanca's cocaine infrastructure, but it's not dwelled on as much as Captain Cruzar's massacre of Bolivian Christians.


!! Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso"

A leader of the Los Extranjeros and the one in charge of eliminating Santa Blanca's remnants.
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* BadBoss: When you encounter one of the kill list board, you can see in addition to killing civilians, he sometimes kill his own men who isn't up to his standards.
* BloodKnight: The main reason he loves his GladiatorGames. When the Ghosts mess up his operations big time, he just couldn't resist and challenges the Ghosts personally through the radio.
* BossBanter: Once you got his attention, he starts taunting the Ghosts through the radio.
* DuelBoss: You can't call your rebel backup during his boss fight. The gladiator area even take place in a forest area where it is almost impossible to bring a vehicle in.
* GladiatorGames: He runs a gladiatorial arena where former Santa Blanca sicarios fight each other to the death, in order to select out potential recruits for Los Extranjeros. To assassinate him, you're forced into the arena where you have to fight off waves of sicarios until Ortega and his squad finally show themselves.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: He's an Armored unit and therefore can only be killed with several headshots.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He keeps a kill count on how many rebels he and his men has killed.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: One of the Ghosts point out that many of his targets are ex-Santa Blanca, and that at least he is doing one thing right.
* KingMook: He is one to the Armored Los Extranjeros.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Major Rocha; Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast, while Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine.
* TheSpartanWay: His GladiatorGames are his way of obtaining the best possible recruits for Los Extranjeros
* WolfPackBoss: He's an Armored unit that fights you alongside a handful of other Armored units as well as a Drone Jammer.

!! Captain Dante Cruzar, "O Diabo"

A murderous psychopath who is committing crimes against the Bolivian Christian population for no reason.
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* AxCrazy: The main reason he got fired from his previous job, he is just too bloodthirsty.
* CrushingThePopulace: In contrast to Santa Blanca's VillainWithGoodPublicity campaign, Cruzar uses pure terror tactics to ensure submission, massacring entire villages and desecrating holy sites to intimidate the populace into believing that Los Extranjeros are unkillable demons.
* DoomTroops: His specialty, while Los Extranjeros already look scary enough, he is the one who makes use of this to spread terror and make the people too afraid to fight back.
* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the only reason he does anything he does.
* HollywoodAtheist: He's targeting the Bolivian Christians in the region on the simple basis that they are religious, and is doing everything from engaging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to the destruction of religious icons. When confronted by the Ghosts, he taunts them by drawing them to a church where he's slaughtered several civilians, sarcastically mocking their belief in "God's protection" and declares that no man or God can judge him.
* KingMook: He one is to the Footman Extranjeros.
* ShroudedInMyth: Many people believe he and his men are unkillable, also why he is nicknamed "O Diabo" (The Devil).
* TheDreaded: While Rocha and Ortega are feared by the people in their own ways, they are both pale compared to Cruzar. He also [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]] a lot more than both of them combined, like pointlessly massacring a whole village just to make a point to the Ghosts.
* WolfpackBoss: Unlike Major Rocha or Captain Ortega, Captain Cruzar is a standard infantry unit (though he does have somewhat enhanced health), but he's accompanied by a ''massive'' death squad made up of EliteMooks that assault your position after leading you into an ambush. A really massive one at that which include armed vehicles support in a place with little cover.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!! The Predator

The titular extraterrestrial hunter from the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise. The Predator's depiction in ''Wildlands'' is primarily based on [[Film/{{Predator}} the first film in the series]]. It appears his spaceship has crash-landed in Bolivia and he's been taking advantage of the regional chaos to hunt combatants from all sides in the conflict.
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[[folder:Santa Blanca Cartel]]

A massive cocaine cartel that controls the nation of Bolivia. It has a Security, Propaganda, Production, and Smuggling divisions.

* AffablyEvil: Pretends to be this but are actually FauxAffablyEvil.
* CardCarryingVillain: A DownplayedTrope example as Santa Blanca doesn't attempt to portray itself as anything BUT a cocaine cartel. In real life, the cartels pretended to be legitimate businesses.
* TheCartel: A direct and obvious example of the trope, taken to supervillain-esque levels.
* CowardlyMooks: Santa Blanca lieutenants will make a run for it once things get loud and will often grab the nearest vehicle to do it. Also, if the Ghosts manage to get close enough, they'll immediately surrender.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Despite being a Mexican cartel they include several Bolivians and Americans in their hierarchy, and there's also a mix of men and women in the organisation, including several female bouchons and one female underboss. Arguably, a DownplayedTrope example as while they have high-ranking women, El Yayo is the highest ranking Bolivian member and he has AuthorityInNameOnly.
* FiveBadBand: The five leaders of the Santa Blanca cartel.
** BigBad: El Sueno, TheDon of the Santa Blanca cartel.
** TheDragon: Nidia Flores, who is the only female cartel leader, and is in charge of trafficking the cartel's product outside of Bolivia. El Sueño calls her his Queen and considers her to be a surrogate daughter, crediting her with leading them from obscurity to dominance in Mexico's drug wars.
** 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.
** TheBrute: El Muro, [[FromCamouflageToCriminal a Mexican soldier turned bodyguard]] for El Sueño as well as his best friend and right-hand man, who is the de-facto head of all security for the Cartel.
** 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.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Subverted as El Yayo and La Gringa hate each other, Nidia Flores hates El Pulpo, and everyone hates DJ Perico but El Sueno.
* 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While El Sueno 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.
* GunsAkimbo: Some sicarios are armed with twin Skorpion or MAC-11 machine pistols. While [[RealityEnsues inaccurate]], it's the [[MoreDakka volume of fire they put out]] that makes them a threat.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Santa Blanca has an entire region where they've kidnapped hundreds of people with even vaguely anti-cartel opinions, murdered them, and had their bodies dissolved. This is also their policy with virtually anyone who opposes them.
* NGO superpower[[NGOsuperpower]]: The Santa Blanca cartel controls an entire nation effectively, actively employing its military and exploiting its economy to its own ends. {{Subverted}} with the fact it folds like a deck of cards under assault from American military operatives working with the CIA and local rebels.
* TheRemnant: ''Fallen Ghosts'', which takes place after Operation: Kingslayer, has isolated pockets of Santa Blanca still operating inside of Bolivia, though between the decimation of their infrastructure by The Ghosts and Los Extranjeros coming in the resultant power vacuum, they're a shadow of their former selves.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: The Cartel doesn't hesitate to murder police or criminals publicly but prefer to "disappear" regular citizens.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They're a Mexican rather than Bolivian cartel despite the latter existing and once having been almost as dangerous as the Columbian ones.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It's the trafficking in children which ultimately turns the citizenry of Bolivia against them.
** Publicly played straight as "Bostom" Reed believes (correctly) he'd be executed if people knew of his side business.
* TattooedCrook: The number of SB-affiliated characters ''without'' very prominent gang tats can be counted on one hand. Even [[MsFanservice Nidia Flores]] has some, which is highly unusual for a former beauty queen but shows just how deep she's in with the cartel.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One of Santa Blanca's four divisions is entirely devoted to propaganda and public relations, and it appears to be quite successful. They go to some lengths to win the Bolivian populace's favor, like investing serious money in a refugee camp after a massive wildfire (which they were responsible for in the first place), a move that gained them a lot of favor with the common man. Doing stuff that hurts SB's polished image is a sure-fire way to a date with a hitman sent by the big boss.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Many low-ranking Santa Blanca sicarios are seen shirtless, in order to show off their [[TattooedCrook Santa Blanca tattoos]].
* WeHaveReserves: There are thousands of sicarios working for the gang and dozens of outposts, checkpoints, as well as bases for the organization.
* VillainBall: The cartel's child slavery can't bring in nearly as much as their cocaine trade yet is what helps bring the company down.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Santa Blanca cartel, and in particular its leader El Sueno, are not tolerant of the lieutenants slipping up in their duties. This is shown in one trailer, where the Ghosts steal a cocaine shipment from a Santa Blanca lieutenant nicknamed "White Hat", but don't kill him, saying he's a "dead man walking". [[BrickJoke The end of the trailer]] reveals that White Hat was on the receiving end of a ColdBloodedTorture session of El Sueño himself, before he leaves two of his mooks to execute White Hat.

!El Sueno

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.

* AffectionateNickname: Nidia Flores calls him "mi rey"[[note]]"my king"[[/note]]. He calls her "mi reina"[[note]]"my queen"[[/note]] in return.
* AGodAmI: Despite being deeply religious, El Sueno has no problem comparing himself to Moses when he describes leading Santa Blanca into Bolivia. This while standing in a massive mausoleum he's had built for himself, which he even claims outright to be fit for a god when Sandoval tells him it's fit for a king.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Not only is he TheUnfought, his (an therefore the whole game's) final mission is surprisingly easy in itself. It mostly consists of battering your way through countless hostiles to his mausoleum on a ten-minute timer, but there's a conveniently placed Humvee right next to you when said timer starts, so all you have to do is hop in and follow the plotted route without stopping or doing anything else. With a maxed-out Car Shield skill and a bit of luck, you can reach the destination without having to switch cars once and with 4-5 minutes to spare. Once you hit the door to his mausoleum, you're in the clear (at least until after the cutscene and the credits when you're dumped right back into the carnage, but that doesn't matter anymore anyway).
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Is attacked twice during the game and slaughters his opponents personally.
* BadBoss: El Sueno [[YouHaveFailedMe does not tolerate failure]], and tends to order the executions of those that do. While this is understandable to a degree, he ends up putting hits on some of his most trusted lieutenants who only failed due to him putting them in impossible situations, as well as shown to be willing to kill people over such things as harming the quality of the cartel's cocaine by diluting it. The Ghosts use this to their advantage, since most of the HVT's they capture know what they're in for [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and aren't happy about it.]]
* BaldOfEvil: With a SkullForAHead in the back for added intimidation points.
* BigBad: El Sueno is Santa Blanca's Boss of Bosses, who also is the guy who personally tortured and killed Ricky Sandoval.
* DecapitationPresentation: He presents the Ghost the head of [[spoiler: Pac Katari]] dangling on a meat hook.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He quotes the Bible, saying "I am not my brother's keeper" when justifying [[spoiler: ordering El Muro to execute his own brother]], even saying that El Muro is going against the bible when he refuses the order. Thing is, the quote is from Cain, ''the villain of the story'', and is not meant to be seen as something to be emulated. This showns that El Sueno's understanding of his own faith is... skewed, to say the least.
* 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 Sueno has no problem elevating Bolivians like El Yayo or Madre Coca or even a white woman like La Gringa to Bouchon status. However, he represents a very dark twist on this trope, as Sueno 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.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He's got a really deep, menacing voice.
* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an unmasked Bane from Franchise/{{Batman}} combined, maybe, with [[Film/{{Scarface}} Tony Montana]]. He also has some elements of Pablo Escobar in how he runs the country as well as engages in narco terrorism.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He puts considerable effort into presenting himself as "tough but fair" as well as genuinely concerned for the welfare of the people of Bolivia; however, he's involved in some seriously cruel criminal activity including child trafficking and mass murder, and is an incredibly BadBoss.
* FluffyTheTerrible: El Sueno means "The Dream". It's the nom-de-guerre for a giant of a man with [[TattooedCrook prominent facial tattoos]] in charge of the biggest drug cartel in Bolivia.
* GeniusBruiser: Self-educated and capable of killing heavily armed assassins by himself.
* GildedCage: The good ending has Bowman saying that [[spoiler: even for all the immunity he gets and having a nice mansion in Florida, he's under 24-7 house arrest, and that the moment he tries to rebuild his empire, [[SequelHook the Ghosts will be there to take him down again.]]]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his intimidating appearance and incredible brutality, El Sueno is actually a very intelligent man and is even familiar with classical literature, quoting Balzac at one point.
* HonoraryUncle: He seems to be this to Nidia Flores' daughter, as she refers to him as tio, which is Spanish for uncle, in one video. [[spoiler:Doesn't stop him from trying to kill both Nidia and her daughter.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: He bitterly calls Nidia Flores a sell-out for choosing to make a deal with the U.S. government instead of facing death with her head held high. He then ends up making the exact same deal for himself at the end of the game.]]
** [[spoiler: He also claims that he never lies, as it is a "crime to yourself". Despite this, he blatantly lies to El Cardinal's face about the cartel's child trafficking operations, though his ExactWords are to menacingly question El Cardinal as to whether he thinks El Sueno would actually do something so unforgivable, rather than to actually deny it.]]
** Talks extensively about how he's El Muro's brother and that he's his only true friend but orders him to kill La Plaga (El Muro's actual brother) for his screw ups.
** He also promised UNIDAD that the cartel would keep its killings it a minimum (i.e. only other criminals) but it effectively depopulates a region, employs mass slave labor, and kills everyone who criticizes the cartel before dissolving their body.
*** In short, everything out of his mouth is two faced double talk.
* KarmaHoudini: No matter how badly the Ghosts destroy his empire, [[spoiler: he's given full immunity by the Department of Justice for turning snitch on other groups he's worked with.]] The standard ending has this subverted with [[spoiler: Bowman shooting him dead.]] Played straight during the good ending with [[spoiler: Bowman knowing once all of his information dries up, he'll be let go in America or be transferred to a Mexican prison where he'll "escape."]]
* 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.
* ManipulativeBastard: All of the conversations he has with his subordinates are full of him undermining their confidence, pretending to be their friend, and framing the worst possible actions in the best possible life.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He bears some similarities with real-life Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar, such as using the same famous quote "plata o plomo" ("Silver or lead" in English, = [[DeadlyEuphemism "Either take the money or we will take your lives"]]), amassing an insane amount of wealth from his activities and performing charity projects.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Treats his subordinates who turn on him with disgust [[spoiler: but is quick to make the same sort of deal.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: El Sueno 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 Sueno 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."
** Thoroughly averted when it comes to dealing with his subordinates as his WeHaveReserves and YouHaveFailedMe tendencies quickly cause a serious manpower drain. If he was willing to show an ounce of mercy then he probably could have salvaged most of the operations which the Ghosts wrecked.
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever your opinion of Santa Muerte worship in real life, his version is a murder cult which he believes makes him rich and powerful in exchange for the victims he gives her.
* SharpDressedMan: This hulking mountain of tattooed muscle is almost never seen wearing anything other than a crisp suit, albeit with some concessions to his profession.
* SkullForAHead: The back of his head is tattooed into a skull face.
* SmugSnake: His plan for immunity goes terribly wrong in the Bad Ending as he underestimates just how far Karen Bowman will go to remove him from power.
** Even in the GoodEnding, he seems awfully confident for a man who just lost his entire organization.
* VillainousDemotivator: El Sueno's entire management strategy basically boils down to "beatings will continue until morale improves." If his subordinates don't produce the results he wants, he just threatens to kill them and their families if they continue to fail. This bites him in the ass ''multiple'' times, as it pushes his bouchons into taking stupid risks that end up getting them killed, or pushes them into a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal against him.
* VillainsNeverLie: He takes pride in the fact he never lies, describing it as "a crime against yourself" while all his other crimes are merely crimes against humanity. However, he apparently [[MetaphoricallyTrue doesn't count having others lie for him as "lying"]]. He also uses ExactWords and leaves out details enough that his claim is more or less just B.S.
* VisionaryVillain: He does not want Santa Blanca to merely be a powerful cartel, he wants Santa Blanca to turn Bolivia into a narco-state with Santa Blanca as its shadow government, a goal he's well on his way to accomplishing when the Ghosts show up. He literally believes Santa Muerte told him to do it, too.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: When you finally confront him face-to-face at the end of the game, it turns out he's already made a deal for full immunity with the U.S. government, much to the frustration of Agent Bowman and the Ghosts. [[MultipleEndings Depending on how much of the game is completed]], Karen either [[BoomHeadshot shoots El Sueño in the back of the head]] ([[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and summarily gets tossed in jail herself for "murder"]]), or takes El Sueño in alive, [[LuxuryPrisonSuite who is given a Florida penthouse]] [[BoxedCrook and "helps" the United States]] [[TheStoolPigeon by ratting out countless crime organizations and terrorist cells]] ([[LetsYouAndHimFight i.e. getting the US government to shut down his rivals in the drug trade for him]]).]]
-->'''El Sueno:''' [[spoiler:You may want to answer your phone, ''Officer Bowman''.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Treats everyone in his organization as expendable and easily replaced. It's not that he ''can't'' do it but that he can't do it ''quickly'' and the cartel collapses due to the fact it is done in a manner that leaves him without his usual resources.
* VowOfCelibacy: El Sueno has taken one of these, being a deeply religious man. However, comments made from him over the course of the game strongly imply that he loves Nidia Flores in a romantic sense.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Trafficking division]]

!Nidia Flores

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Trafficking. Nicknamed "La Reina de Belleza" or "the Beauty Queen", her looks hide both immense intelligence and unadulterated violence.

* AffectionateNickname: El Sueno calls her "mi reina"[[note]]"my queen"[[/note]]. She calls him "mi rey"[[note]]"my king"[[/note]] in return.
* BlatantLies: The people they send oversees for education are not being used as drug mules. Mind you, DJ Perico kind of droped that one on her.
* TheDragon[=/=]CoDragons: Of the Cartel's four sub-leaders, she and El Muro are the ones closest to El Sueno and the ones with the most authority and respect within the Cartel. El Sueno even credits her leadership with bringing Santa Blanca to prosperity and dominance back when the group was just one of the lesser of Mexico's narco gangs on the losing end of the country's drug wars.
* HellBentForLeather: Has a thing for tight, revealing black leather outfits.
* KarmaHoudini: Is one of the few cartel members to get complete immunity.
* MamaBear: She's very protective of her daughter, understandable considering the kind of life they're in. [[spoiler: She specifically tells the Ghosts when they rescue her that while they can do whatever they want to her, they better not lay a finger on her daughter. This said to the four guys who just destroyed a small army of sicarios gunning for her.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Ends up turning snitch on the Cartel after El Sueño puts a hit out on her for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him for the last time]]. However, her initial plan was to escape on her own and she only very reluctantly ends up helping the Ghosts after they capture her and make it clear El Sueno won't stop hunting her until she and her daughter are both dead.]]
* MsFanservice: A very attractive woman with a penchant for revealing, tight black leather outfits, it's no surprise she's basically become the game's Thumbnail.gif. Justified in-game as she's a former beauty queen whose fame and exceptional physical attractiveness is how she got involved with the Cartel in the first place and also aides in her role leading the Cartel's international trafficking.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Strongly resembles Claudia Ochoa Felix, an alleged hit squad leader for the Sinoloas who went viral for her Kim Kardashian-like looks and social media photos, and has kids and a husband allegedly in the business.[[note]]The husband, not the kids.[[/note]] Felix claims she's not really connected with the cartel.
** Also has some resemblance to Sandra Alvia Beltrane (aka the Queen of the Pacific) and another famous female cartel head who had lost loved ones to the violence.
* RichBitch: How she was called by her own mother ("Madonna") and many others because she refused to be disrespected.
* SelfMadeWoman: How she sees herself.
* StrawFeminist: Her radio broadcasts have an element of this as she basically encourages women to be bossy and rude because, otherwise, men will never take them seriously otherwise. A DownplayedTrope as it's not exactly wrong, especially for her line of work, and is mostly how others treat her.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Is the most respected woman in Bolivia....or else.
* UngratefulBastard: A thoroughly justified use of the trope as she's completely aware the only reason she needs rescuing by the Ghosts is because they're the ones who arranged for the destruction of her reputation as well as business.
* UnholyMatrimony: She isn't married to El Boquita but he is as devoted to her as any husband.

!Rolando "El Boquita" Villa
Nidia's underboss. "The Little Mouth" started trafficking since he was a child. Got smitten by Nidia Flores and, after a night of drunken sex, had a daughter with her.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite his status as Nidia's Underboss, El Boquita has neither boss-level health or a unique weapon.
* BumblingDad: Is goofy and sweet to his daughter, which makes the fact you have to kill him all the more unpleasant.
* TheBrute: Is basically Nidia's henchman and loyal hanger-on.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Nidia finds Boquita alive, but kills him and saws his head off to present to El Sueno as a means of saving face, and herself. It does not work.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: After you assassinate him (and you can even walk up to and play around with the body), a cutscene at the end of the mission shows he somehow survived, though riddled with bullets and mortally wounded, long enough to return to Nidia where she cuts off his head to give to El Sueno in hopes it would be enough to save herself.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Is probably right the best thing to do when things go south is escape with what money they have rather than try to work things out with the cartel.
* UnrequitedLove: Nidia has affection for him, at best, [[spoiler: but not enough that she won't kill him herself.]]
* UnwantedSpouse: Seems he was initially this. El Boquita is way below Nidia Flores' league, in fact he was previously just one of her more talented minions. She only married him because he ended up getting her pregnant during a one-time, one-night evening of pity sex. However, in the several years the two of them spent living together raising their daughter, it seems Nidia did come to care for the guy, considering [[spoiler: she seems genuinely grieving after she's forced to kill him in an unsuccessful attempt to assuage El Sueño's wrath by giving him El Boquita's head instead after the two of them [[YouHaveFailedMe fail El Sueño for the last time]].]]

!El Cerebro

El Cerebro was a reclusive genius in a university in California. Nidia Flores discovered his talents, and hired him as designer and manager of the cartel's fleet of drug-smuggling submarines.

* AmbiguousDisorder: After he's captured, he begins casually speaking to the Ghosts with extreme detachment regarding his situation without any fear or concern for his safety, and starts going over his future plans out loud. When Bowman gets a hold of him, he goes on a long, rambling diatribe about the immortality of the rocks and whether or not rabbits concern themselves with the name of God. Bowman actually has to ask if he understands the situation he's in. [[spoiler: Of course, considering it's not actually El Cerebro, [[DecoyGetaway but a decoy meant to keep the Ghosts busy while he fled Bolivia]], it's possible the real El Cerebro doesn't have the same mental disorder, although background conversation between his sicarios seems to indicate he actually does]].
* ChildProdigy: Graduated high school at the age of 13, went on to graduate from college and join the Cartel not long after.
* DecoyGetaway: [[spoiler: Turns out, the guy you capture isn't El Cerebro, but the head of his submersible research. The real El Cerebro went into hiding long before you got to his decoy and escaped.]]
* EvilGenius: How he's described by his dossier.
* TheGhost: [[spoiler: We never actually encounter him in the game.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Gets away scott free.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Makes a break for it with [[a decoy left behind as soon as he even gets a whiff of the Shosts]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: While [[DecoyGetaway using his lead designer to act as a decoy]], El Cerebro completely fled Bolivia before the Ghosts could shut down his operation.]]

!Boyer "Boston" Reed

Contrary to his nickname, Boyer Reed actually comes from Lexington, Massachusetts. He started adventuring after college, and soon after met El Boquita. "Boston" Reed since then became head of the pilots who make sure the drugs get flown around the world.

* AcePilot: It's why Santa Blanca hired him. When you finally track him down to assassinate him, he even shows up in an attack helicopter to fight you. [[InformedAttribute You can easily shoot him down without him getting off a single shot in return.]]
* CoolShades: Defeating him unlocks his Aviator Sunglasses for the player character. However, he's never actually seen wearing them since his one personal encounter with the Ghosts happens while he's piloting a helicopter that's promptly shot down.
* ProperlyParanoid: He only ever shows up for big deals or if an emergency is happening. His use of code names infuriates Nidia. Turns out his paranoia is actually pretty sensible, compared to the rest of Santa Blanca who openly brag about their criminal deeds on public radio.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Shares a nickname with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung George Jung]], a famous cocaine smuggler and subject of the film ''Film/{{Blow}}''.
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the only cartel member who objects to being publicly outed as one on the radio. Mind you, he publicly threatens to murder DJ Perico for saying so too.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: As if smuggling drugs for Santa Blanca wasn't enough, Reed also runs his own human trafficking ring on the side, something that not even Sueno and Nidia know about. It's this side-operation that helps the Ghosts track him down, since his partners don't even have Sueno's protection. You're also given the chance to kill one of his slaver cohorts (who talks matter-of-factly about selling people into slavery and harvesting them for their organs), and unlike other unarmed surrendering enemies the game doesn't penalize you for executing him.

!Octavio "El Pulpo" Allende
The chief accountant for Santa Blanca. He makes sure the cartel's money is clean.

* EnemyCivilWar: There was already plenty of bad blood between him and Nidia, but the Ghosts make sure it explodes into outright conflict.
* EscortMission: The final mission in his quest chain involves following him to the airport and protecting him from sicario hit squads sent by Nidia Flores. It's a particularly tough mission because you're supposed to be protecting him incognito, so instead of having any control over his movements you have to rely on his A.I. to dodge the hit squads while you follow him.
* FalseFlagOperation: The Ghosts pit him and Nidia against each other by making them look like they're stealing from each other.
* KarmaHoudini: The last we see of him, he's flying off back to Mexico. The Ghosts essentially pass up the chance to capture[=/=]kill him so he can damage Nidia's reputation.
* NiceHat: Wears one. Defeating him adds it to your character customization options.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once they've driven a wedge between him and Nidia, the Ghosts have to make sure he survives hit squads so he can get out of Bolivia and back to Mexico.

!Ricardo "El Gato" Godinez del Toro

One of the smuggling buchons, Ricardo Godinez del Toro is known for cheating death many times, earning him the nickname "El Gato", alluding to the belief that [[CatsHaveNineLives a cat has nine lives]].

* BodyDouble: The Ghosts kill one of these on the first assassination attempt. Noticeably, the body double doesn't have boss-level enhanced health, while the real El Gato does.
* HandCannon: His custom weapon is a gold-plated .50 cal Desert Eagle with Incan engravings. His body double even carries an identical copy. It's even named "la Novena" (the Nine), again in reference to the "nine lives" trope.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: His surgeon father had a narco boss who died on the operating room table. Rather than have his father die of a long torture session, he killed him quickly.
* MadeOfIron: He's been shot, stabbed, blown up, garroted, drowned, poisoned and still came back. Not so much when the Ghosts catch up to him.

!Antonio Garcia-Taylor

The buchon in charge of managing Santa Blanca's cocaine stockpiles until they can be transported out of Bolivia. Antonio has become addicted to the coke he's supposed to be guarding, which has made him reactionary and paranoid.

* DomesticAbuse: He's known for hitting his wife, even right in front of other people.
* GetBackHereBoss: When the Ghosts finally find a lead on him, he's driving around the province in his super sports car and must be brought to a non-lethal stop before he can be captured. Depending on how well you do in waylaying him, this mission can rapidly devolve into a hectic car chase, and woe betide you if you don't have a very fast car on hand if he spots you too soon.
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Antonio has been stealing coke from the stockpiles for a while.
* HairOfTheDog: Bowman interrogates him by forcing him at gunpoint to do lines of coke until he either overdoses and dies or gives up information on Nidia's operation. Eventually his body can't handle it anymore and he cracks.
* OddNameOut: Most of the Cartel's buchons have colorful and intimidating nicknames, while Antonio is just known as... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Antonio]].
* TheParanoiac: His defining character trait thanks to his massive cocaine consumption. Almost the entirety of Bowman's briefing vid on him is dedicated to the ludicrous extremes his paranoia has grown to over the years.
* WouldHitAGirl: No Santa Blanca goon is averse to this, but he's the one most heavily associated with violence against women in particular. Aside from the DomesticAbuse mentioned above, he's also responsible for the kidnapping, torture, murder and enslavement of whole villages' worth of women from all over Bolivia.

!Dolores "La Cabra" Serrano de Perez

One of the smuggling buchons and a close childhood friend of Nidia Flores, "la Cabra" (the Goat) manages Santa Blanca's ties to Peru's druglords. Appears in the DLC mission "The Peruvian Connection".

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[[folder:Santa Blanca Influence division]]

!Gustavo "El Cardenal" Serrano

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Influence. The Cardinal was a priest, excommunicated from the Church for blasphemy - spreading the word of Santa Muerte. El Sueno took him in, and he continues his preaching to this day.

* AffablyEvil: While he's the head of Santa Blanca's influence and propaganda, he still has strong moral and religious convictions. He tells La Santera that under no uncertain terms will he tolerate her cult's practice of human sacrifice, for instance, as it warps the worship of Santa Muerte. [[spoiler: He also strongly objects to the Cartel kidnapping and selling children, though he still backs down when El Sueno threatens to kill him.]]
* AntiVillain: He's only supporting Santa Blanca because of [[PetTheDog how they donate a large amount of their money to charities]], and he is also the most moral of Santa Blanca's leaders: while every other SB leader had personally engaged in criminal activities and murders, El Cardenal's worst criminal activity was helping to launder Santa Blanca's money [[spoiler: and [[TheAtoner he "confesses his sins"]] with little provocation from Bowman - in contrast, El Yayo and Nidia Flores both demand conditions from Bowman before they testify, and El Muro [[UndyingLoyalty refuses to say a word about El Sueno]], [[OnlyOneAllowedToKillYou even if it's because he wanted to kill Sueno himself]].]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: Played with, as the Ghosts don't use El Cardenal's words against him, they use Ramon Feliz's video of El Sueno's child trafficking ring, which El Cardenal was trying to claim was a hoax. This evidence turned the people against El Cardenal, and allowed the Ghosts to arrest him in the ensuing chaos.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As stated above, he is disgusted by the practice of human sacrifice [[spoiler:as well as Santa Blanca's child trafficking.]]
** Played for laughs in the fact that he is okay with a massive drug cartel but is DISGUSTED by the DirtyCommunists in the country.
* TheHeretic: An actual unambiguous example as he's warped Christian doctrine to worship Santa Muerte as an actual god. Ironically, he believes she's a positive force for good while virtually all of his followers have turned it into a ReligionOfEvil.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Actually seems to think cocaine trafficking is a legitimate business and El Sueno is a man of the people rather than a CompleteMonster.
* MoralMyopia: More like willful blindness to the evils of Santa Blanca.
* ReligionOfEvil: Averted. He teaches Santa Muerte as a force for good and self-achievement.
* SinisterMinister: He dresses in the robes and vestments of a Catholic cardinal, despite the fact that he's been excommunicated and extols the virtues of Santa Muerte, whose worship the Catholic church has historically frowned upon. He also acts as El Sueño's spiritual adviser.
* TakeThat: One Kingslayer audio file is all about one of his priests asking him for advice on how to convince more people to join their congregation. El Cardenal admonishes him for the mere suggestion of going on a proselytization spree because they're not Mormons and don't hand out brochures like The Watchtower. He wants to win new followers by performing miracles and providing actual support to the people.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: A DownplayedTrope example as he thinks cocaine trafficking is a good way to end poverty in Bolivia.
* VillainousFriendship: Is El Sueno's spiritual advisor--ironically, actually trying to get El Sueno to be a good and upstanding man.

!Ramon Feliz
El Cardenal's underboss. A former journalist who reported against Santa Blanca. El Sueño "pressured" him into blogging good things about the Cartel. [[spoiler:While he seems subservient to his new overlords, Ramon still has a few cards up his sleeve...]]

* AntiVillain: Even moreso than El Cardenal, as he knows the Santa Blanca are evil, and openly railed against them in both the official newspapers, and then an underground blog. However, after El Sueño tracked Ramon down and tortured him, he's basically been forced to tell pro-Santa Blanca stories under pain of death.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Played with - he started to make pro-Santa Blanca stories after El Sueño tortured him, but Ramon still personally hates them, and hates being forced to publish "their truth" even more, [[spoiler: to the point he was almost DrivenToSuicide until given some last-minute info about SB's child-trafficking ring, and the second he got it, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he quickly tried to publish it]] - [[HeelFaceDoorSlam unfortunately, the Cartel butchered him before he could publish his findings]], leaving it up to the Ghosts to find his work and reveal it for him.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Tortured, murdered and strung up on the wall of his apartment.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Very nearly, until he got some last-minute info about SB's child-trafficking ring. Considering what happened after, he probably should have went through with it.]]
* IntrepidReporter: He used to be one, starting out as one of Santa Blanca's most vocal opponents. Then he was forced to write propaganda for the cartel after El Sueño [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured him into working for him.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: The Ghosts find him dead, strung up on a wall after he attempted to betray Santa Blanca to break the story on their child smuggling ring.]]

!Marco "DJ Perico" Garcia
Host of Radio Santa Blanca. A Latino-American rapper that wanted to make his own stand in the music scene, Perico eventually joined the Cartel as a Sicario, where his "talents" - rather the lack of it - was noted by El Sueño.

* ConspiracyTheorist: One of his broadcasts questions if Santa Blanca was ''really'' behind the bombing of the US Embassy that set the campaign into motion. [[spoiler: Later it turns out ''he's right.'' Sandoval bombed the Embassy himself and blamed Santa Blanca for it.]]
* DumbassDJ: The host and DJ of Radio Santa Blanca. He's also very annoying and ''very'' stupid.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: When he was a sicario in the early days of the Santa Blanca Cartel, he very quickly managed to piss off just about everyone through his annoying personality and total incompetence. The only reason he didn't end up killed was because El Sueño thought he was funny and took a liking to him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: One of his PSA's to his sicario listeners is on the importance of gun safety, in spite of the below-listed incident involving the assault rifle version of a shotgun bong.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: He once tried to turn an AR-15 into an improvised bong, which ended up going off and killing his former bodyguard's dog.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When Perico was originally given a job as a sicario, he was tasked with shooting two men in a truck. Despite shooting in the windows, [[EpicFail Perico somehow completely missed BOTH of his targets]] while killing their dog instead, a fuckup that even left Bowman utterly exasperated with Perico's incompetence.
* IsThisThingStillOn: As one Op:Kingslayer file reveals, he cussed out several Santa Blanca buchons, including El Sueño himself, while still live on the air when one of his engineers accidentally left his mic on after his show. The file ends with him receiving a ''very'' ominous phone call from El Sueño.
* KarmaHoudini: Apart from being threatened and interrogated for his station's encryption key, he suffers no real comeuppance from the Ghosts and is allowed to continue broadcasting.
** The difference being he now has to broadcast statements made by Pac Katari on behalf of the rebels. Comments made by NPC's indicate that Perico is now a laughingstock because of this.
* KickedUpstairs: El Sueño understood Perico didn't know how to shoot a gun, but knew how to shoot his mouth, and so "promoted" him to being the host and DJ of Radio Santa Blanca, so he could spread the word of the cartel on pirate radio.
* MeaningfulName: "Perico" is Spanish for "Parakeet" or "Parrot", it's also a slang term for cocaine. Appropriate, given the subject matter of his broadcasts and his ceaseless chattering on them.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Let's put it this way: most of the buchon's respond with anger or fear at being captured, and threaten and plead with the Ghosts when confronted. Perico's response? Chide the Ghosts for harming him ''because he's famous.''
* YouWillBeSpared: El Sueño lets him off the hook for his screw-ups a surprising number of times, which is quite notable considering how ruthlessly Sueño enforces YouHaveFailedMe with his other subordinates.

!Maria "La Santera" del Rocio Mendez
Underboss. Maria del Rocio Mendez is head of the cartel's Santa Muerte cult, author of Santa Muerte's version of the Bible, as well as the buchon in charge of Santa Blanca's gold mining operations. Nicknamed the "Saintmaker".
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* BadHabits: She dresses like a nun, with the only standout difference from the standard vestments being a wreath of brightly-colored flowers on her head.
* HumanSacrifice: Practices it, much to the offense of her boss El Cardenal.
* ReligionOfEvil: Her version of Santa Muerte worship, which includes among other things human sacrifice rituals. Her sicarios are also described as being fanatically devoted to her.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Thanks to the Ghosts' efforts in sabotaging her gold mining operations, El Sueño has her captured and slated for execution, which the Ghosts rescue her from.

!Javier Coronel "Carzita" Vallardo
An international playboy who makes sure celebrities and politicians not only party with the cartel, but generously donate.
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* {{Antivillain}}: Carzita isn't anywhere near the worst of Santa Blanca's lieutenants and mostly is just a party-host and resort manager.
* {{BFG}}: Carzita is a complete and utter NonActionGuy, yet his personal weapon is Llamativo, a [[BlingBlingBang blinged-out]], heavily upgraded [[MoreDakka Mk249 machine gun]], which is one of the most powerful guns in the game. While the base model can be made slightly more powerful overall, unlocking it and all its top-tier upgrades is one hell of a lot more difficult than taking Carzita out of the picture, especially since his personal mission isn't even the last and most difficult in his province.
* HookersAndBlow: Pretty much the way he provides Santa Blanca with an endless number of political friends.
* KarmaHoudini: The Ghosts talk about how even though he's screwed with the cartel, he'll pop back up doing the same thing for another group.
** YouHaveFailedMe: Then again, the montage after El Cardenal is brought down shows Carzita face down on the ground as though dead, and given El Sueno's policy on failure it's likely that Sueño had him executed both for his colossal fuck-up in Agua Verde and for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer being useful to his operation]].
* UpperClassTwit: Carzita is the high-living socialite son of a Mexican telecom mogul. Bowman even describes him as a "meppie"; a Mexican preppie (or a "prep-sican", if you prefer).

!Marcelo "El Chido" Rios
An extremely popular (and supposedly cool, thus "el Chido") Narcocorrido singer on Santa Blanca's payroll.
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* 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.
* CoolCar: One of the missions in his province consists of stealing his heavily guarded muscle car in order to damage his macho rep. Even the Ghosts think the ride is awesome.
* DirtyCoward: He tries to make a run for it if he's alerted during his final mission, but given that he's a civilian without any combat training, this reaction is pretty justified.
* GangstaRap: Although his music is guitar based, during the briefing video about him Bowman compares narcocorridos to gangsta rap.
* 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.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Production division]]
!Rudolfo "El Yayo" Yana

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Production. A Bolivian master coca planter, El Yayo knows what types of coca to plant to produce quality cocaine.
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* {{Antivillain}}: Is a cocaine producer, true, but really just wanted to produce coca leaves according to his belief system.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: According to El Sueño, El Yayo only grew coca as part of Bolivia's ancient native heritage, and never actually processed it into cocaine until the American-backed "Dignity Project" resulted in the destruction of most of the coca fields, forcing El Yayo to turn to cocaine production to preserve his livelihood.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is fiercely defensive of his family, and he's working for the Santa Blanca to ensure they will be protected. He even has [[OverlordJr one of his grandsons working as a buchon under his command]]. However, this quickly turns to haunt El Yayo [[spoiler: as his grandson is DrivenToSuicide [[WellDoneSonGuy over shaming his grandfather]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after the Ghosts dismantle his operation]], [[IHaveYourWife and two other members of El Yayo's family are taken hostage by the Santa Blanca to force him to continue working as the production branch keeps getting dismantled]]]].
* EvilOldFolks: One of the oldest members of the Santa Blanca cartel, Yayo is an old-school [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocalero cocalero]] who is considered a master coca grower and cocaine producer.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Once the Ghosts sufficiently disrupts the cartel's operations, [[spoiler: El Sueño will force El Yayo to drastically increase cocaine production to make up for the financial losses caused by the Ghosts. In order to do this, El Yayo is forced to rush production and cut his cocaine with filler; unfortunately, El Sueño considers selling an inferior product to be damaging to Santa Blanca's brand reputation, and puts out a hit on El Yayo, which persuades El Yayo to make a deal with the Ghosts for protection.]]
* PuppetKing: El Yayo only has nominal authority over his Santa Blanca subordinates; a collectible audio log showing a conversation between him and his own bouchon El Wey shows that El Yayo has no actual control over El Wey or his sicarios.
* UngratefulBastard: The Ghosts consider El Yayo and his family to be this, as they continue to be quite vitriolic towards the Americans even after the Ghosts save them from Santa Blanca. However, if you're familiar with the very shady history of American CIA intervention in Bolivia in the 90's, [[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.

!Katrine "La Gringa" Svensden
El Yayo's underboss. A well-known medical prodigy who joined a charity aid in Bolivia, now stuck in a limbo due to the charity organisation being involved in a government funding scandal. El Sueño bribed her into producing cocaine for him, promising higher pay.
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* AntiVillain: Even more so than El Chido. Everything she did in service to Santa Blanca, she did to survive after she was left stranded in a foreign country with no job, no way home, her reputation in tatters, and finally being given [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer she couldn't refuse]] by El Sueño. Just about every Kingslayer file about her and every cutscene she appears in makes it clear how little she wants to be part of the cartel and its business. She also secretly patches up wounded civilians and even rebels, and she never displays any jerkass behavior, either.
* BreakTheCutie: She started off as a woman with a bright future in medicine, working for charity and loved by the people of Bolivia. Then her charity organization was exposed as a CIA scam, her colleagues lost all respect for her, and she found herself stuck in Bolivia with nowhere to go and with very few prospects.
* BrokenPedestal: Once people discovered that the NGO La Gringa was a part of was actually a front for the CIA, it utterly destroyed her reputation, both to the people she used to help and her colleagues.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Svensden's fall from grace and her eventual transformation into La Gringa is solely the CIA's fault. It was their front company that annihilated her reputation when it blew up and left her with no choice but to accept El Sueño's offer to work for him. It also makes Bowman's contemptuous treatment of her all the worse.
* DamselInDistress: Her final mission is a fairly complex one and revolves around saving her life in several ways. First she must be extracted from her house while it's under siege by a small army of sicarios. When she's found in the basement, she's already taken a bullet to the shoulder and is slowly bleeding out, forcing the Ghosts to rush her to a nearby rebel doctor within a set time limit. While the doctor is patching her up, more sicarios attack the clinic in an effort to kill her, turning the mission into a HoldTheLine scenario. Finally, when she's fit for transportation again, the Ghosts extract her and hand her over to Bowman who performs even more emergency surgery on her, accompanied by an awful amount of gloating (see below) while the poor woman screams and whimpers in agony.
* HotScientist: A smoking-hot blonde with a Mensa-level IQ who fills out a lab coat like nobody's business. Sadly, there's a huge difference between her gorgeous cutscene looks and her actual in-game model.
* ReformedButRejected: Even after her secret involvement with the rebels is revealed, Bowman has no sympathy for her and even gloats to her about how much PrisonRape she has to look forward to.

!Gonzalo "El Emisario" Yana

One of Santa Blanca's production buchons, and the grandson of Production head El Yayo. "The Emissary" greatly respects and admires his grandfather and doesn't want to disappoint him.
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* {{Antivillain}}: Averted. We see just how far Gonzalo is willing to go when he attacks a hospital to turn it into a drug lab.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the Ghosts continually disrupt the production labs in his charge, he hangs himself out of shame for letting El Yayo down, while taking the blame for the loss of the labs.]]
* KickTheDog: His aforementioned attack on a hospital.
* {{Nepotism}}: Is more or less stated to not know the first thing about cocaine production but is very good at convincing people to buy it. Despite that, he is in charge of the production section under his grandfather.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: El Emisario kills himself and writes a note to El Sueno taking full responsibility for the loss of the production labs, in the hopes that Sueño won't blame El Yayo. Unfortunately, all Sueño cares about is the production numbers for his cocaine, and blames El Yayo regardless for any drop in production.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gonzalo desperately wants his grandfather's approval, to the point of doing everything for him.

!Ruperta "Madre Coca" Faro
Head of the coca harvesting operation in Tabacal. An elderly woman with a reputation for violence and ruthlessness.
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* 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.]]
* EvilOldFolks: Possibly the worst person in the cartel after El Sueno.
* {{Irony}}: Her son died due to a cocaine overdose after a long-time addiction. Her way of coping was to become a cocaine producer herself, eventually becoming the head of the Santa Blanca cartel's coca harvesting operation.
* NeverMessWithGranny: While she's advanced in age, Madre Coca is anything but a doting old woman, and has a well-earned reputation as a ruthless cartel buchon. This is reflected in her weapon of choice: [[MoreDakka a personalized PKP Pecheneg medium machine gun]]. Her response when a U.S Special Forces team abducts her favorite lieutenant? Personally lead an ambush against them under the guise of a deal.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She's come to dote on her favored lieutenant, Salazar, because he reminds her of her deceased son.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Uses forced labor and horrific working conditions despite the fact the cartel rakes in billions.

!Marcus Jensen

A skilled American chemist headhunted by La Gringa straight out of university, he oversees Santa Blanca's coca production and trains the Cartel's members in the art of making cocaine.
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* BlackAndNerdy: He was a dean's list chemistry major and trains Santa Blanca's "students" as if he were a university professor, complete with classroom labs and graded test papers.
* BullyingADragon: After he's captured by the Ghosts, he tries to worm his way out of it with both the letter of the law ("I'm here on a legitimate work visa and ''you'' don't even have legal jurisdiction here!") and an arrogant rant about choices and "personal liberty". Bowman turns it back on him by pointing out that, since the Ghosts are operating completely outside the law, they aren't bound by the letter of it and will exercise their "personal liberty" to blow Jensen's brains out and bury his body in a ditch if he doesn't cooperate. Jensen folds quickly.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears a pair of NerdGlasses and is an unrepentantly greedy sociopath.
* {{Greed}}: Just about everything Jensen does is motivated by the promise of financial gain. It's why he went into chemistry and why he joined the cartel. [[spoiler: When he refuses to tell the Ghosts the details of his cocaine production methods, it isn't out of loyalty or fear of the cartel, but because it's "proprietary information." As mentioned above, he doesn't hold onto this for long once Bowman informs him he can either reveal the info or be shot and buried in a shallow grave.]]
* JerkJustifications: Tries to rationalize knowingly helping a powerful drug cartel ramp up it's cocaine production by saying that "If it's not me, it's just gonna be someone else. So it might as well be me, right?" and "''I'' didn't force anyone to take the drugs. People make their own choices, so it's ''their'' fault the cartel is so powerful." The Ghosts are less than impressed with his flimsy excuses.

!Pedro "El Wey" Gil

The Gil family is a lineage of pyrolusite miners. Pedro has greater ambitions - to improve pyrolusite production so that he can create the best quality cocaine ever. As well as make money out of it. Things got explosive in between, and El Wey is stuck with a disfigured face.
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* AffablyEvil: Despite his intimidating looks, he's described as an affable guy. Ricky Sandoval, when he met him, even remarked that his can-do attitude and friendly mannerisms might have made his post-accident life good for an inspirational story, were it not for the fact that he's a murderous cartel thug. [[spoiler: When the Ghosts capture him, he's rather even-tempered about the whole thing, and even regards the Ghosts as professionals and states his respect.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't ever talk about his face.
* CallingCard: He uses shotgun shells with melted-down Mexican pesos in the place of shot. It's later used by the Ghosts to frame him for the murder of a UNIDAD officer.
* FacialHorror: The left side of his face was burned in a lab accident.
** TwoFaced
* WorthyOpponent: He's pleased to learn that the men sent after him are professionals, and seems to hold the Ghosts in high regard.

!White Hat

A production buchon of the Cartel. The Ghosts were tasked with dealing with him in the announcement trailer.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: What does White Hat wear?
* [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Game]]: He only appeared in the announcement trailer for the game. [[spoiler:His lab/church compound was used by an unnamed chemist in the final game]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Security division]]
!Francisco "El Muro" Munguia

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Security, and a childhood friend of El Sueno.
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* TheDragon[=/=]CoDragons: El Muro has been best friends with El Sueño since childhood, and as the head of Santa Blanca's Security division a decent portion of the Cartel's sicarios are personally loyal to him instead of El Sueno. [[spoiler: This helps create a rift when El Muro turns against El Sueno.]]
* BigBadWannabe: He thinks he's going to kill El Sueno and the Ghosts both, even after being captured.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Calls Bowman a whore and says he'll kill them and the Ghosts despite the fact they managed to capture him in the middle of an armed military base.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very protective of his little brother, La Plaga. [[spoiler: He betrays El Sueno to protect his brother from his wrath, and when La Plaga is killed (unbeknownst to him by the Ghosts), he turns on Sueño to avenge his death.]]
* GeneralFailure: Should be the man taking out the Ghosts but he's too caught up in his family issues (which start from the very first mission) to do much work against them. Indeed, he's actively rebelling against El Sueno soon after.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's a former member of the Mexican Army's special forces, and it's heavily implied that he was working for the country's narco-bosses pretty much from the beginning.
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Despite wanting to kill El Sueno, he refuses to rat on him out of revenge or even for his own sake, as being a snitch would make him less of a man, even against the man who killed his brother.]]
* {{Irony}}: La Plaga was killed by the Ghosts rather than El Sueno but they, obviously, never tell him and El Sueno doesn't bother to correct him.
* {{Misblamed}}: El Muro blames El Sueno for La Plaga's death.
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: "The Wall" can fire a gun and fuck your day up if you as much as rub him the wrong way.
* OnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: [[spoiler: Holds this attitude towards El Sueño after their falling out.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After La Plaga is killed, he attempts to kill El Sueño, thinking he's the party responsible.]]
* SchizoTech: The guy wears chainmail under his tactical vest when he's captured. While RealLife militaries and police forces [[TruthInTelevision really are experimenting]] with modern takes on this ancient gear, it's still something you don't see everyday.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He basically believes he can handle El Sueno but his rebellion is a complete failure.
** The UNIDAD team hired to take El Sueno out is slaughtered and the corpse of their leader stabbed multiple times with dollar bills on the knives.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happens to El Muro after his capture. Given his refusal to cooperate, it's probable he simply went to jail.

!Ignacio "La Plaga" Perez Cervantes

El Muro's underboss and half-brother, and Santa Blanca's head sicario. His socially-active facade goes side-by-side with his tendencies to commit violent executions - [[WouldHurtAChild even kids]] - and he isn't shy to brag about it. He recruited La Yuri and El Polito after they saved his life by performing surgery to remove the bullets he got from a shootout.
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* CoolHat: Wears a nifty black cowboy hat. Kill him and it's yours.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Santa Blanca spends billions of dollars of their drug money maintaining a VillainWithGoodPublicity position in the country and does all of its murders of innocents discreetly with a man who dissolves their bodies. So, what does La Plaga do? Murders innocents at random and puts the video on the internet. No wonder El Sueno wanted to kill him.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: One of the videos he posts on social media features him executing the child of a Santa Blanca lookout who apparently failed his duties. This contributes to El Sueno's decision to have him disposed of.]]
* TheHedonist: Is described as this, with a social media feed consisting of his partying antics [[BreadEggsMilkSquick interspersed with videos of executions of the cartel's enemies.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: You'd avoid La Plaga like [[{{Pun}} the Plague]] had he not be the charming sociable party boy he's fronting as.
* StupidEvil: His posting of retaliatory executions of civilians in response the actions of the Ghosts enrages his boss, because El Sueno knows that taking it out on the populace will just alienate the people and drive them into the arms of their enemies, rather than scare them into silence.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Plays a big role in the fall of Santa Blanca as a cartel because after he screws up by advertising the cartel's murder of innocents, El Sueno orders his death, which turns El Muro against him, and basically ends up destroying their security apparatus when they need it most. The Ghosts may have been able to do their job regardless but it certainly made it a lot easier.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Averted but just barely. His brother and DJ Perico seemed to like him, at least. Everyone else in Bolivia seems to have despised him.

!Zapatero "El Polito" Gonzales and Gloria "La Yuri" Fernandez

Santa Blanca's chief interrogators. El Polito and La Yuri were a surgeon and nurse team at a local hospital when saved La Plaga's life after he was injured in a shootout, which La Plaga repaid them for by bringing them into the Santa Blanca cartel. The torture and execution of Ricky was their doing.
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* BattleCouple: You face these two together.
* CoolCar: Polito owns what is essentially a 5th generation Lamborghini supercar.
* FatAndSkinny: Polito is the skinny to Yuri's fat.
* GatlingGood: Yuri jumps behind a conveniently placed minigun emplacement at the beginning of the boss fight, which combined with her significantly enhanced health make her quite a decent threat.
* ILoveTheDead: In a rather graphic audio recording, La Yuri takes the pants off of one of her recently-expired victims, and proceeds to fawn over the size of his manhood.
* ItsPersonal: For Bowman and Pac Katari, they were involved in both Sandoval's interrogation and Amaru's torture, making them priority one on Kingslayer's hit list.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Killing either one will send the other into a desperate rage, [[RealityEnsues though it doesn't actually give them more resistance, damage, or anything like that]].
* SickeningSweethearts: These two fawn over each other nonstop, which Amaru claims to have felt more painful than their actual torture of him. You get to witness a truly disturbing example of their amorous gushing while stalking them in their TortureCellar, if you don't feel like interrupting them.
* SoftSpokenSadist: A lovey dovey husband and wife who clearly revel in the horrors they inflict and have their own private torture room.
* StarterVillain: They're your first major targets in the Cartel leadership hierarchy.
* StoutStrength: Yuri is a very large woman and also happens to be the most durable enemy in the game [[{{Kevlard}} for some reason.]] She's able to withstand about twice as much damage as a regular boss enemy; it can take up to 15 shots to the chest or multiple headshots to drop her, or up to two dozen shots if you use a suppressed weapon. Combined with her use of a minigun turret, and she can actually mow down your entire A.I. controlled Ghost Squad by herself if you send them in against her without backing them up.
* TortureCellar: A ''multilevel'' one beneath a creepy hunting lodge in the Bolivian mountains. To give you a sense of what awaits in that evil place, the whole facility seems directly inspired by ''[[Franchise/{{Saw}} Saw]]'' and ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''.
* TortureTechnician: The two are in charge of torturing enemies of the cartel.

!Carl Bookhart

Chief of training for Santa Blanca's elite sicarios. He's a former Army Ranger who defected after an IED injured his squad and got him kicked out of the military.
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* BeardOfEvil: Sports one of the longest in the game.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Was a sergeant with the Third Battalion of the [=75th=] Ranger Regiment, until he had to retire after getting caught in an IED blast in Iraq.
* EliteMooks: Bookhart's responsible for training the elite sicarios you encounter in the later parts of the game, and he's personally protected by a large number of them as well as several [[HeavilyArmoredMook Heavy troopers]].
* EvilFormerFriend: Nomad mentions having previously served with Bookhart in the Rangers, and is understandably disturbed when learning that he's a Cartel leader.
* {{Foil}}: To Nomad. Both are [[BadassBeard mustachioed]] former Rangers. The difference being Carl is now joining a cartel as a military instructor, while Nomad is in a black ops taskforce sent to destroy the cartel. To top it off, your A.I. teammates tend to not follow you into Bookhart's inner sanctum due to pathing issues, so in single player Nomad usually ends up facing off against Bookhart solo.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Lapsed back into criminal activity after his forced retirement from the US Army, ultimately joining the Santa Blanca Cartel.
* GlassCannon: Bookhart himself has standard boss health and can be gunned down pretty quickly with any automatic weapon, but he's got amazing aim and incredible [=DPS=] with his custom [=M4A1=], and can mow you down surprisingly fast in turn. He's also really fond of throwing grenades.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: His first test for new sicarios involves giving them a weapon (a gun, a knife, or a machete) and ordering them to kill a prisoner with it, prisoners who are often children. Any who refuse will be next in line to die.
* InHarmsWay: It's indicated that his primary motive in joining the Cartel as a combat instructor was so he could still feel useful, the military being the only thing he was ever good at and being unable to continue serving with the US Army after his injuries in Iraq.
* MoreDakka: Bookhart's got a minigun turret covering the hallway leading to him, as well as two minigun turrets backing him up inside his boss room.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Bookhart was given a medical discharge from the Army after he exhibited signs of PTSD and psychotic behavior. Unable to readjust to civilian life, he had frequent run-ins with the law and was unable to hold a job for more than a few weeks. During a chance meeting with El Muro in Mexico, El Muro recognized Bookhart's talent and gave him a job training Santa Blanca's elite sicarios.
* TheSpartanWay: The training program he runs for the Santa Blanca Cartel's elite sicarios, with use of live ammunition and real knives during training. As a result, more candidates are permanently injured or killed in training than graduate, but those who do are forces to be reckoned with.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Was given the choice of joining the Army or jail time at the age of 18, and chose the former.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: After killing him, the Ghosts remark that it's a lousy way for an Army Ranger to die.
* WouldHarmAChild: As part of their training, Bookhart's sicarios are forced to murder an innocent so that they will know what it's like to kill. Sometimes the victim is a man, sometimes it's a woman, and sometimes it's a ''child''. Sicarios who refuse to participate are killed themselves by their fellow recruits.

!Raul "El Pozolero" Murillo

The man responsible for disposing of the bodies of Santa Blanca's victims in order to hide the evidence of the murders, which he does by dissolving them in sodium hydroxide, which has earned him the nickname "the Stewmaker".
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* AffablyEvil: Aside from assisting in the disposing of bodies, doesn't commit any crimes and is pleasant to a fault.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Does not find death or dead things distressing. Also is a grown man who talks to his teddy bear.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is a oddball who has disposed of literally hundreds of corpses for the cartel, if not thousands.
** Also a CloudCuckoolander who loves his teddy bear but insists he's not afraid of the dark. He just worries the teddy bear will get lonely without him.
* TheDreaded: The Cartel's sicarios are terrified of him, and even the Ghosts are concerned about confronting him after seeing how much he's got the sicarios spooked.
** MistakenForBadass: El Pozolero turns out to be [[spoiler: a mild-mannered man with the innocent mind of a child. The sicarios think he's a terrifying psycho because of how horrifying his work is, but the truth is his mind simply isn't developed enough to grasp how disturbing it all really is.]]
* ManChild: [[spoiler: Turns out to be one of the non-psychopathic variety. When the Ghosts kidnap him he even tells them he can't be gone for too long or else his teddy bear will wonder what happened to him.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: His work involves not only dissolving a human body to soup, but then destroying whatever bones or teeth couldn't be melted down into a fine powder.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "El Pozolero" is based on [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012602190.html a real life criminal who was active in the Mexican drug wars]], even using the same nickname, [[spoiler:though the real life version wasn't developmentally disabled]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:UNIDAD]]

The Bolivian military police that used to fight the cartel but have since made an alliance with them.
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* EliteMooks: Since the UNIDAD forces started out as a paramilitary force, they are better armed and equipped then the average cartel grunts. In fact the basic UNIDAD soldier is as tough as the Cartel's Elite Mooks.
* EnemyCivilWar: Santa Blanca may have UNIDAD on their payroll, but it's not exactly a firm alliance and both sides are quite willing to shoot at each other. In addition, some random encounters have Santa Blanca sicarios being held prisoner by UNIDAD forces.
* FacelessGoons: Most UNIDAD soldiers wear face concealing balaclava.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: UNIDAD is a paramilitary organisation originally set up by the Bolivian government to combat drug cartels, but now it is on Santa Blanca's payroll.
* OnlySixFaces: UNIDAD officers have a limited number of face models, even though ''several of them take part in in-game cutscenes'', which ends up giving the impression that UNIDAD is some kind of CloneArmy.
* RespawningEnemies: While they are tougher than Cartel Sicarios, the biggest threat posed by UNIDAD forces is the fact that, unless they're killed in stealth, fighting them will immediately trigger a UNIDAD alert resulting in infinite waves of UNIDAD reinforcements of steadily increasing difficulty.

!General Baro

The Bolivian Major General in charge of UNIDAD. He brokered the deal between Santa Blanca and the Bolivian government.
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* AFatherToHisMen: He cares for the men under his command, and after his capture, laments that the soldiers the Ghosts killed while doing so were good men.
* AntiVillain: Baro is a genuine patriot who only made a deal with the Cartel in order to avert further bloodshed once it became clear they were too entrenched and powerful for UNIDAD to defeat. He's even been trying to act against the Cartel once it became clear the violence and brutality they're inflicting upon Bolivia is just as bad as it would be if there was open war.
* DealWithTheDevil: Santa Blanca didn't try to moderate its activities after they made a deal with UNIDAD but made them much much worse.
* MoralityPet: His daughter is one to him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction to the Santa Blanca takeover of his country.
* PapaWolf: His response to the Ghosts finding and forcing his daughter to call him? Set up an ambush.
* PuppetKing: Despite being the commanding officer of UNIDAD, Baro has lost control of much of the organization, with many of his officers pursuing their own agenda and making deals with the Cartel, which also partially explains why UNIDAD continues to be just as hostile to you even after you [[spoiler: succeed in forming an alliance with him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Despite threatening his daughter to draw him out, then kidnapping him, the Ghosts still treat Baro with the respect due to an officer of his rank. Though this is partly due to military courtesy and partly due to the Ghosts wanting to gain his assistance against the Cartel.

!"El Comandante" a.k.a. Lt. Colonel [[spoiler: Miguel De los Montreros]]

A lieutenant-colonel in UNIDAD, El Comandante is a legendary soldier, working closely with Santa Blanca. He and his men are responsible for the destruction of rebel forces in the area of Media Luna and turning it into a UNIDAD stronghold. He keeps his identity a tightly-controlled secret, and wears a black ballistic mask at all times. The Ghosts face him in the "UNIDAD Conspiracy" DLC.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite his impressive-looking armor and reputation as a legendary soldier, El Comandante isn't any tougher than any other normal boss in the game when you finally start gunning for him. Weaver even quips "Guess he wasn't as badass as he thought!" when you blow him away. The real challenge is that you have to hunt him down in the midst of a massive UNIDAD base swarming with soldiers.
* {{Archenemy}}: Is this to the rebels, having more or less defeated them by the time of the game.
* BonusBoss: Like La Cabra, he's a DLC assassination target and not part of the game's normal main quest progression.
* ColonelBadass: How he portrays himself. He's more like a FakeUltimateHero.
* TheFaceless: He's never without his black ballistic mask, even wearing it in official military documentation papers.
* EnemyMine: El Sueño does not like having a member of UNIDAD working so closely with the cartel, and would generally prefer to keep them out of cartel operations entirely. [[spoiler: It's later revealed he was justified in his suspicions; El Comandante is actively looking for ways to disrupt or destroy Santa Blanca to take over the cocaine trade himself.]]
* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler: He turns out to be the son of one of Bolivia's top leaders, having been sent down to Cartel territory to covertly usurp Santa Blanca's cocaine production infrastructure away from them.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: To conceal his identity he wears a black ballistic mask with red paint on it that resembles claw marks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Narco Road]]

!!El Invisible[=/=]El Zamuro[=/=][[spoiler:Mr. Sonrisa]][=/=][[spoiler:Jose Vargas]]
The BigBad of the ''Narco Road'' DLC campaign, El Invisible is the mysterious chief coordinator behind Santa Blanca's smuggling network. No one knows El Invisible's identity or even what he[=/=]she looks like, as they are a master hacker who never deals with anyone face-to-face and uses a voice modulator to conceal their identity.
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* DiabolicalMastermind: His actions are much more "next-level supervillain shit" compared to the Cartel bosses from the main game.
* TheFaceless: No one knows what El Invisible looks like.
* FinalBoss: Of the ''Narco Road'' DLC. He fights you in an AceCustom military helicopter that's significantly more durable than normal. He's also the only boss of the DLC who isn't a CutsceneBoss.
** PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The ''real'' El Invisible is assassinated in the epilogue, living in a humble shack in the Grand Canyon without any security or protection other than a pistol. You basically just kick in his door and blow him away.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: His [[spoiler: hacking of the CIA's mainframe and divulging all of their dirty laundry on the internet]] results in the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros mercenary group to help purge all CIA spies operating inside their country, leading to the events of ''Fallen Ghosts''.
* ManipulativeBastard[=/=]TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were AllAccordingToPlan for him, as he ''wanted'' you to steal his PDA and bring it back to CIA headquarters so the virus hidden inside it could hack their network.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were all set up by El Invisible so he could hack the CIA's servers and disclose all their dirty laundry over the internet. It's strongly implied he did this as revenge for a loved one, "Rosebud", who was an innocent bystander killed during a CIA operation. The CIA, in turn, hunt him down and execute him as revenge for screwing with them.]]
* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: The real El Invisible turns out to be Mr. Sonrisa, the informant who's been helping you throughout the DLC. He was manipulating you all along.]]

!! Eddie Escovado
The leader of the "Los Kamikazes" gang, a boisterous, adrenaline-addicted playboy and social media star.
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* AffablyEvil: Eddie's very friendly towards you throughout your time working for him, although sometimes obnoxiously so. Even when you turn on him at the end, he only remarks that your behavior is "kinda rando" but still compliments your bravado.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: When he learns that he is about to be captured by the CIA mid-skydive, he opts to film himself taking off his parachute backpack and free falling to death, claiming it to be "immortalization".]]
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with both hands to the Ghost [[spoiler: while free falling to his death]].
* HookersAndBlow: Is a fan of both, stating his fondness for the former when introducing himself.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Although nominally a gang leader, Eddie never actually seems to actually take part in any of Santa Blanca's criminal activities, instead spending all his time partying. He ''buys'' plenty of drugs for his parties, but doesn't seem to be involved in the actual drug business.
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: After his suicide, he is found dead on his private beach face down, with his butt protruding upwards ''a la'' Johnny Sasaki despite slamming into the sand at terminal velocity.]]
* TheStoner: Is obviously high whenever you meet him, even in the middle of an UNIDAD ambush.
* SlaveToPR: ''Everything'' he does is for the sake of increasing his social media views. [[spoiler: Even his suicide.]]
* TalkativeLoon: Incessantly attempts to make [[OrphanedPunchline bizarre]] [[TooMuchInformation conversations]] with the Ghost [[spoiler: while being driven away from an UNIDAD ambush]].

!! Arturo Rey

The leader of the "Death Riders" motorcycle gang and a fanatical believer in Santa Muerte.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: After he fails to kill the Ghost, he sets himself on fire and rides off on his motorcycle to his death.]]
* BlingBlingBang: He fights with a gold-plated Desert Eagle during the UNIDAD raid against his HQ in one of the missions where you work for him.
* CoolBike: Owns one with an exhaust system that makes the rear wheel appear to be engulfed in flames.
* Cult: His motorcycle gang doubles as one for Santa Muerte.
* CutsceneBoss: While all the ''Narco Road'' bosses are disposed of in cutscenes, Rey's the only one who actually fights the Ghost, [[spoiler: getting into a short melee duel with the Ghost before taking a scythe to the shoulder and deciding to set himself on fire and ride off into the sunset.]]
* HellSeeker: By the time the Ghost meets him, he is convinced that Santa Muerte wishes for him to personally serve her in hell. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for those around him, he's looking for servants for himself in hell as well.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Attempts to get servants in hell by blowing up hundreds of civilians and later trying to kill the Ghost. He fails both times due to the Ghost.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How he ultimately dies.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Is remarkably unfazed by having a scythe lodged in his arm by the Ghost.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: Once his gang members discover his HumanSacrifice plot, they take the side of the Ghost over him, opening up an opportunity for the Ghost to take him down. In fact he had so much trouble getting enough Santa Blanca members to agree to his crazy mass murder scheme that he ends up having to hire Los Sin Almas gang members instead to carry out his plan.]]

!! Tonio Mateos
The loud and obnoxious leader of the "Crazy Riders" muscle car gang, who speaks exclusively in hip hop rhythm.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Suffers this when the Ghost shoots him while he's piloting a plane.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Comes with his mode of speaking.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is constantly threatening the Ghost even while they're getting work done for him.
* JerkAss: While the DLC's other two gang leaders are both AffablyEvil towards you, Tonio insults and belittles you throughout your entire time working for him. Once you finally seem to earn his respect, it literally takes him less than half a minute to decide you're a threat to his power and challenge you to a showdown.
* JiveTurkey: Always speaks like he is rapping.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Doesn't get to finish describing what he intends to do to the Ghost when he gets shot.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fallen Ghosts]]

!! Los Extranjeros

A South American [=PMC=] composed of elite soldiers from across Latin America. They were hired by UNIDAD to help them purge Bolivia of CIA influence, however they took the opportunity to take over the cocaine production infrastructure left over after the downfall of Santa Blanca.
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* AnimalMotifs: Their logo consists of a roaring jaguar in front of a combat knife and a silhouette of South America and their combat uniform camouflage consists of yellow, black and gray spots, dots, camo stripes and solid colors.
* ContinuityNod: Los Extranjeros are a Latin-American [=PMC=] utilizing gear and deploying soldiers who are on a similar level to the Ghosts, which is similar to the unnamed group of Latin-American mercenaries encountered towards the end of ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2''. They also use troops that have mobile jammers that inflict InterfaceScrew on your HUD, which is similar to the mobile jammers in both ''Advanced Warfighter'' games and the jamming effect in the ''Future Soldier'' mission "Ember Hunt". Finally, they have troops that use [[InvisibilityCloak active camouflage]] like the Ghosts and Bodark do in ''Future Soldier''.
* EliteMooks: The Los Extranjeros are to UNIDAD what UNIDAD are to Santa Blanca. They also have a number of specialist units, including elite snipers and drone jammer troops. Also, their Covert Ops and Armored units are likely the most dangerous infantry units in the entire game.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Los Extranjeros" translates to "The Foreigners", a fitting if enigmatic title given they're an international [=PMC=].
* InvisibilityCloak: One class of Los Extranjeros utilizes active camouflage like the Ghosts themselves do in ''Ghost Recon: Future Soldier''. They have no presence on the mini-map when cloaked either and can only be seen through thermal vision.
* OneHitKill: Both their Elite Snipers and Covert Ops units can take you down to 1% health in one shot on normal difficulty and straight up kill you in one shot on the higher difficulties.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: They were hired by the Bolivian government to reinforce UNIDAD and to eliminate or subdue the remnants of the Kataris 26, the Santa Blanca cartel and to kill any CIA agents in the country.
* PsychoForHire: The Los Extranjeros commanders, natch. One is using slave labor to restart Bolivia's cocaine production, another is persecuting Bolivia's Christian population and a third is having Santa Blanca mooks fight to the death for his entertainment.

!! Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo
The commander of Los Extranjeros and the main antagonist of the DLC.
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* BigBad: As the leader of the Los Extranjeros, he's this for the ''Fallen Ghosts'' DLC.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Fallen Ghosts'', as well as of the ''Ghost Recon Wildlands'' story as a whole.
* FlatCharacter: Merlo only has one or two lines of dialogue and you learn very little about him or his personality other than him being the leader of Los Extrajneros, a former war criminal of South America's many brushfire conflicts, and the game's final assassination target.
* FlunkyBoss: Colonel Merlo's a pretty standard opponent (he doesn't even have boss-level health and dies in just a couple shots), but you'll have to fight your way through an army of UNIDAD and Los Extranjeros troops including a fair share of EliteMooks to get to him.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Downplayed, he does fight back but with just a handgun and he is not even behind cover once you kick on the door. Even his lowly mooks give you a lot more trouble than he do. Nothing compared to his lieutenants who give you a hell of a fight.

!! Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro"

A leader of Los Extranejeros and in charge of rebuilding the cocaine trade.
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* ColdSniper: Being a Covert Ops specialist, he even has the reputation. Most of his men also never had ever seen him in person.
* DirtyCoward: When you finally come after him, he runs off and you have to chase after him, eventually cornering him on top of a mountain. Since he's a Covert Ops unit equipped with a cloaking device, hunting him down is more complicated than usual.
* FlatCharacter: He don't have any speaking line unlike the other.
* KingMook: Of the Covert Ops
* ManipulativeBastard: He stands out from the others that he does the least KickTheDog of the three, mostly 'just' slave labor instead of pointless killing. But he performs well in it, the drug trafficking is back on business. He also operates from the shadows, both literally and figuratively.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Captain Ortega; Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine, while Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Downplayed; Rocha is mostly known for using slave labor to restore Santa Blanca's cocaine infrastructure, but it's not dwelled on as much as Captain Cruzar's massacre of Bolivian Christians.


!! Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso"

A leader of the Los Extranjeros and the one in charge of eliminating Santa Blanca's remnants.
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* BadBoss: When you encounter one of the kill list board, you can see in addition to killing civilians, he sometimes kill his own men who isn't up to his standards.
* BloodKnight: The main reason he loves his GladiatorGames. When the Ghosts mess up his operations big time, he just couldn't resist and challenges the Ghosts personally through the radio.
* BossBanter: Once you got his attention, he starts taunting the Ghosts through the radio.
* DuelBoss: You can't call your rebel backup during his boss fight. The gladiator area even take place in a forest area where it is almost impossible to bring a vehicle in.
* GladiatorGames: He runs a gladiatorial arena where former Santa Blanca sicarios fight each other to the death, in order to select out potential recruits for Los Extranjeros. To assassinate him, you're forced into the arena where you have to fight off waves of sicarios until Ortega and his squad finally show themselves.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: He's an Armored unit and therefore can only be killed with several headshots.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He keeps a kill count on how many rebels he and his men has killed.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: One of the Ghosts point out that many of his targets are ex-Santa Blanca, and that at least he is doing one thing right.
* KingMook: He is one to the Armored Los Extranjeros.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Major Rocha; Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast, while Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine.
* TheSpartanWay: His GladiatorGames are his way of obtaining the best possible recruits for Los Extranjeros
* WolfPackBoss: He's an Armored unit that fights you alongside a handful of other Armored units as well as a Drone Jammer.

!! Captain Dante Cruzar, "O Diabo"

A murderous psychopath who is committing crimes against the Bolivian Christian population for no reason.
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* AxCrazy: The main reason he got fired from his previous job, he is just too bloodthirsty.
* CrushingThePopulace: In contrast to Santa Blanca's VillainWithGoodPublicity campaign, Cruzar uses pure terror tactics to ensure submission, massacring entire villages and desecrating holy sites to intimidate the populace into believing that Los Extranjeros are unkillable demons.
* DoomTroops: His specialty, while Los Extranjeros already look scary enough, he is the one who makes use of this to spread terror and make the people too afraid to fight back.
* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the only reason he does anything he does.
* HollywoodAtheist: He's targeting the Bolivian Christians in the region on the simple basis that they are religious, and is doing everything from engaging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to the destruction of religious icons. When confronted by the Ghosts, he taunts them by drawing them to a church where he's slaughtered several civilians, sarcastically mocking their belief in "God's protection" and declares that no man or God can judge him.
* KingMook: He one is to the Footman Extranjeros.
* ShroudedInMyth: Many people believe he and his men are unkillable, also why he is nicknamed "O Diabo" (The Devil).
* TheDreaded: While Rocha and Ortega are feared by the people in their own ways, they are both pale compared to Cruzar. He also [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]] a lot more than both of them combined, like pointlessly massacring a whole village just to make a point to the Ghosts.
* WolfpackBoss: Unlike Major Rocha or Captain Ortega, Captain Cruzar is a standard infantry unit (though he does have somewhat enhanced health), but he's accompanied by a ''massive'' death squad made up of EliteMooks that assault your position after leading you into an ambush. A really massive one at that which include armed vehicles support in a place with little cover.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Characters]]
!! The Predator

The titular extraterrestrial hunter from the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise. The Predator's depiction in ''Wildlands'' is primarily based on [[Film/{{Predator}} the first film in the series]]. It appears his spaceship has crash-landed in Bolivia and he's been taking advantage of the regional chaos to hunt combatants from all sides in the conflict.
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[[folder:Kataris 26]]

A mostly defeated communist resistance against the Bolivian government that is reluctantly allied with the Ghosts. [[spoiler: At least at first.]]

* {{Archenemy}}: El Commandante.
** La Cardinale is also the only cartel member who actively seems to care they exist.
* BackFromTheBrink: The Ghosts provide them enough war material and stolen money to become a serious threat to Santa Blanca as well as the Bolivian government as a whole.
** [[spoiler: Becomes AllForNothing as the death of Pac Katari as well as the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros results in them being crushed again.]]
* ChummyCommies: They become very friendly to the Americans once they start eliminating the bosses.
** [[spoiler: Becomes DirtyCommunists after they turn on you under Pac Katari's orders.]]
* EnemyMine: The rebels are willing to accept any help they can get against UNIDAD and Santa Blanca.
* {{Expy}}: One for M-19, which was a party in Columbia's war against Pablo Escobar.
* FiveFingerDiscount: The majority of their supplies come from the Ghosts stealing them from Santa Blanca and UNIDAD.
* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: They never explictly claim to be communists but their Che inspired uniform (available as an outfit) and leader's dialogue make it clear.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Were in a conflict with UNIDAD and the cartel well before the Ghosts were involved. It didn't work out for them.
* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist communist resistance is allied with a unit of American Special Forces.
* TheRemnant: They were defeated by El Commandante a year before the events of the game and are reduced to a handful of fighters under Pac Katari's control.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Their entire revolt more or less just amounts to a footnote in the Ghost's destruction of the Santa Blanca cartel.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: They seem to think they can take on El Sueno's forces themselves once he's discovered. [[spoiler: They're wrong.]]
* UngratefulBastard: A {{Downplayed}} trope example. They are very grateful and often sing your praises in ambient dialogue. [[spoiler: They also don't hesitate to turn on you at Pac Katari's orders.]]

!Pac Katari

Your primary liaison with the Kataris 26 rebels, providing additional intel on specific targets and operations of the Santa Blanca.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: In addition to his endgame betrayal of you, various collectible audio logs and background conversations reveal he's a much more ruthless and manipulative figure than his "heroic rebel leader" persona would suggest. It turns out he already tried to dispose of Amaru before by leaking his location to Santa Blanca (which is how Amaru ended up kidnapped at the beginning of the game), and in various conversations with the Ghosts he strongly hints at his plans to take over the cocaine trade in Bolivia despite his public propaganda broadcasts condemning Santa Blanca for their drug trade. In Ricky Sandoval's confession, it's also strongly indicated that Katari helped with the false flag bombing of the U.S. Embassy and knew all along that the Ghosts were brought to Bolivia on false pretenses.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: At the end of the game, he first kills his mentor, Amaru, for being too soft and idealistic. Soon after, he betrays the Ghosts in order to kill El Sueño for himself and prove to the world that the Kataris 26 are not slaves to the American government.]]
** One of Ricky Sandoval's tapes reveals that [[spoiler: Katari was the one responsible for leaking Amaru's location to Santa Blanca, which is how Amaru ended up captured at the beginning of the game in the first place. So Katari had actually been plotting to get rid of Amaru for a long time. Sandoval decides to go along with it since Amaru was extremely anti-American while Katari was more pragmatic and willing to work with the Yankees.]]
* ChummyCommies: Downplayed. His talk of an "Agrarian proletariat" and theories of revolution [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection imply pretty heavily]] that he's some sort of Communist, and he is allied with the players. However, he openly dislikes the Ghosts and other Americans, and is only working with them to fight their [[EnemyMine mutual foe]] in Santa Blanca. [[spoiler:Then, after the Ghosts destabilize the cartel and it seems that El Sueño is on his last legs, he drops the Chummy part and [[DirtyCommies turns on the Ghosts]].]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: If enough rebel ops are successfully completed, he eventually, carefully, asks the Ghosts if they could stop destroying so much cocaine and the facilities that produce it, foreshadowing part of his real motives long before he makes an open move to that end.
* GeneralFailure: When the Ghosts first get into Bolivia, the rebellion is fractured and on the verge of defeat. While this is understandable to a degree, given that the Kataris 26 have had to deal with the full might of both Santa Blanca and the Bolivian government coming down on them, Pac then proves to be an ineffective leader even after that. The Ghosts do the majority of the work dismantling the cartel, while Katari mostly asks for favors and complains that the Ghosts aren't working fast enough, or doing things the way he likes. [[spoiler: The one time he is seen actually doing something, it ends in his gruesome death at the hands of El Sueño]]. Still, he can at least inspire people to action with his rhetoric.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Named himself after famous South American indigenous anti-colonial revolutionary Tupac Katari.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: At the end of the game he turns against the Ghosts solely so he can be the one to kill El Sueño personally. For his trouble he gets his head pulled off by El Sueño with a meat hook.]]
* PetTheDog: Pac's not a complete asshole, and without prompting from the Ghosts he independently sends a squad of rebels to protect La Gringa from a Santa Blanca hit squad out of gratitude for her medical help for their cause, even though by that point she had already [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived her usefulness]] to both the rebels and the cartel.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He's initially very reluctant to help the Ghosts, partially out of resentment that one American's death provides only four soldiers, while hundreds of his fighters died and yet they never received any support. Katari does get much friendlier if the Ghosts perform a large number of sidequests to strengthen the rebels, and he's shown to be one of the more open-minded rebels when it comes to working with the Americans, unlike Amaru and some of the other rebels who don't want anything to do with the Yankees.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Despite all of your assistance to his cause, he betrays the Ghosts in order to prove the Kataris 26 can stand on its own by killing El Sueño himself, telling you to leave the country then ordering his rebels to kill you when you chase after him and Sueño instead.]]

!Amaru
One of the founders of the Kataris 26, whose ideas helped shape the rebellion. Your first mission upon touching down in Bolivia is to rescue him.

* ActionSurvivor: Though he can't fight, he's stubborn as a tree. Your rescue of him shows how he's able to survive the Santa Blanca's torture with enough spunk to mock how cringy El Polito and La Yuri's behavior was.
* ChummyCommies: Like Pac above. While he's initially much more civil towards the Ghosts than Pac, the audio logs reveal that he was completely opposed to working with Americans, while Katari was much more pragmatic and willing to work with the Yankees to achieve the rebels' objectives.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: The mission to take El Sueno down has the Ghosts finding his dead body. It's later in the mission you learn Pac Katari killed him, feeling he was too soft for the Revolution.]]
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Took his name from Tupac Amaru, an Andean King.
* NonActionGuy: He's an old man without a proper place on the battlefield, but nonetheless inspires the rebellion.
* UnwantedRescue: A DownplayedTrope example but he isn't happy the Ghosts are the people to pick him up.
* WeHardlyKnewYa: Only appears in the first mission and never makes another appearance. [[spoiler: Except as a corpse.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Cartel]]

A massive cocaine cartel that controls the nation of Bolivia. It has a Security, Propaganda, Production, and Smuggling divisions.

* AffablyEvil: Pretends to be this but are actually FauxAffablyEvil.
* CardCarryingVillain: A DownplayedTrope example as Santa Blanca doesn't attempt to portray itself as anything BUT a cocaine cartel. In real life, the cartels pretended to be legitimate businesses.
* TheCartel: A direct and obvious example of the trope, taken to supervillain-esque levels.
* CowardlyMooks: Santa Blanca lieutenants will make a run for it once things get loud and will often grab the nearest vehicle to do it. Also, if the Ghosts manage to get close enough, they'll immediately surrender.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Despite being a Mexican cartel they include several Bolivians and Americans in their hierarchy, and there's also a mix of men and women in the organisation, including several female bouchons and one female underboss. Arguably, a DownplayedTrope example as while they have high-ranking women, El Yayo is the highest ranking Bolivian member and he has AuthorityInNameOnly.
* FiveBadBand: The five leaders of the Santa Blanca cartel.
** BigBad: El Sueno, TheDon of the Santa Blanca cartel.
** TheDragon: Nidia Flores, who is the only female cartel leader, and is in charge of trafficking the cartel's product outside of Bolivia. El Sueño calls her his Queen and considers her to be a surrogate daughter, crediting her with leading them from obscurity to dominance in Mexico's drug wars.
** 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.
** TheBrute: El Muro, [[FromCamouflageToCriminal a Mexican soldier turned bodyguard]] for El Sueño as well as his best friend and right-hand man, who is the de-facto head of all security for the Cartel.
** 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.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Subverted as El Yayo and La Gringa hate each other, Nidia Flores hates El Pulpo, and everyone hates DJ Perico but El Sueno.
* 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.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While El Sueno 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.
* GunsAkimbo: Some sicarios are armed with twin Skorpion or MAC-11 machine pistols. While [[RealityEnsues inaccurate]], it's the [[MoreDakka volume of fire they put out]] that makes them a threat.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Santa Blanca has an entire region where they've kidnapped hundreds of people with even vaguely anti-cartel opinions, murdered them, and had their bodies dissolved. This is also their policy with virtually anyone who opposes them.
* NGO superpower[[NGOsuperpower]]: The Santa Blanca cartel controls an entire nation effectively, actively employing its military and exploiting its economy to its own ends. {{Subverted}} with the fact it folds like a deck of cards under assault from American military operatives working with the CIA and local rebels.
* TheRemnant: ''Fallen Ghosts'', which takes place after Operation: Kingslayer, has isolated pockets of Santa Blanca still operating inside of Bolivia, though between the decimation of their infrastructure by The Ghosts and Los Extranjeros coming in the resultant power vacuum, they're a shadow of their former selves.
* ReleasedToElsewhere: The Cartel doesn't hesitate to murder police or criminals publicly but prefer to "disappear" regular citizens.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They're a Mexican rather than Bolivian cartel despite the latter existing and once having been almost as dangerous as the Columbian ones.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It's the trafficking in children which ultimately turns the citizenry of Bolivia against them.
** Publicly played straight as "Bostom" Reed believes (correctly) he'd be executed if people knew of his side business.
* TattooedCrook: The number of SB-affiliated characters ''without'' very prominent gang tats can be counted on one hand. Even [[MsFanservice Nidia Flores]] has some, which is highly unusual for a former beauty queen but shows just how deep she's in with the cartel.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One of Santa Blanca's four divisions is entirely devoted to propaganda and public relations, and it appears to be quite successful. They go to some lengths to win the Bolivian populace's favor, like investing serious money in a refugee camp after a massive wildfire (which they were responsible for in the first place), a move that gained them a lot of favor with the common man. Doing stuff that hurts SB's polished image is a sure-fire way to a date with a hitman sent by the big boss.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Many low-ranking Santa Blanca sicarios are seen shirtless, in order to show off their [[TattooedCrook Santa Blanca tattoos]].
* WeHaveReserves: There are thousands of sicarios working for the gang and dozens of outposts, checkpoints, as well as bases for the organization.
* VillainBall: The cartel's child slavery can't bring in nearly as much as their cocaine trade yet is what helps bring the company down.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The Santa Blanca cartel, and in particular its leader El Sueno, are not tolerant of the lieutenants slipping up in their duties. This is shown in one trailer, where the Ghosts steal a cocaine shipment from a Santa Blanca lieutenant nicknamed "White Hat", but don't kill him, saying he's a "dead man walking". [[BrickJoke The end of the trailer]] reveals that White Hat was on the receiving end of a ColdBloodedTorture session of El Sueño himself, before he leaves two of his mooks to execute White Hat.

!El Sueno

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.

* AffectionateNickname: Nidia Flores calls him "mi rey"[[note]]"my king"[[/note]]. He calls her "mi reina"[[note]]"my queen"[[/note]] in return.
* AGodAmI: Despite being deeply religious, El Sueno has no problem comparing himself to Moses when he describes leading Santa Blanca into Bolivia. This while standing in a massive mausoleum he's had built for himself, which he even claims outright to be fit for a god when Sandoval tells him it's fit for a king.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Not only is he TheUnfought, his (an therefore the whole game's) final mission is surprisingly easy in itself. It mostly consists of battering your way through countless hostiles to his mausoleum on a ten-minute timer, but there's a conveniently placed Humvee right next to you when said timer starts, so all you have to do is hop in and follow the plotted route without stopping or doing anything else. With a maxed-out Car Shield skill and a bit of luck, you can reach the destination without having to switch cars once and with 4-5 minutes to spare. Once you hit the door to his mausoleum, you're in the clear (at least until after the cutscene and the credits when you're dumped right back into the carnage, but that doesn't matter anymore anyway).
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Is attacked twice during the game and slaughters his opponents personally.
* BadBoss: El Sueno [[YouHaveFailedMe does not tolerate failure]], and tends to order the executions of those that do. While this is understandable to a degree, he ends up putting hits on some of his most trusted lieutenants who only failed due to him putting them in impossible situations, as well as shown to be willing to kill people over such things as harming the quality of the cartel's cocaine by diluting it. The Ghosts use this to their advantage, since most of the HVT's they capture know what they're in for [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and aren't happy about it.]]
* BaldOfEvil: With a SkullForAHead in the back for added intimidation points.
* BigBad: El Sueno is Santa Blanca's Boss of Bosses, who also is the guy who personally tortured and killed Ricky Sandoval.
* DecapitationPresentation: He presents the Ghost the head of [[spoiler: Pac Katari]] dangling on a meat hook.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He quotes the Bible, saying "I am not my brother's keeper" when justifying [[spoiler: ordering El Muro to execute his own brother]], even saying that El Muro is going against the bible when he refuses the order. Thing is, the quote is from Cain, ''the villain of the story'', and is not meant to be seen as something to be emulated. This showns that El Sueno's understanding of his own faith is... skewed, to say the least.
* 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 Sueno has no problem elevating Bolivians like El Yayo or Madre Coca or even a white woman like La Gringa to Bouchon status. However, he represents a very dark twist on this trope, as Sueno 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.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He's got a really deep, menacing voice.
* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an unmasked Bane from Franchise/{{Batman}} combined, maybe, with [[Film/{{Scarface}} Tony Montana]]. He also has some elements of Pablo Escobar in how he runs the country as well as engages in narco terrorism.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He puts considerable effort into presenting himself as "tough but fair" as well as genuinely concerned for the welfare of the people of Bolivia; however, he's involved in some seriously cruel criminal activity including child trafficking and mass murder, and is an incredibly BadBoss.
* FluffyTheTerrible: El Sueno means "The Dream". It's the nom-de-guerre for a giant of a man with [[TattooedCrook prominent facial tattoos]] in charge of the biggest drug cartel in Bolivia.
* GeniusBruiser: Self-educated and capable of killing heavily armed assassins by himself.
* GildedCage: The good ending has Bowman saying that [[spoiler: even for all the immunity he gets and having a nice mansion in Florida, he's under 24-7 house arrest, and that the moment he tries to rebuild his empire, [[SequelHook the Ghosts will be there to take him down again.]]]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his intimidating appearance and incredible brutality, El Sueno is actually a very intelligent man and is even familiar with classical literature, quoting Balzac at one point.
* HonoraryUncle: He seems to be this to Nidia Flores' daughter, as she refers to him as tio, which is Spanish for uncle, in one video. [[spoiler:Doesn't stop him from trying to kill both Nidia and her daughter.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: He bitterly calls Nidia Flores a sell-out for choosing to make a deal with the U.S. government instead of facing death with her head held high. He then ends up making the exact same deal for himself at the end of the game.]]
** [[spoiler: He also claims that he never lies, as it is a "crime to yourself". Despite this, he blatantly lies to El Cardinal's face about the cartel's child trafficking operations, though his ExactWords are to menacingly question El Cardinal as to whether he thinks El Sueno would actually do something so unforgivable, rather than to actually deny it.]]
** Talks extensively about how he's El Muro's brother and that he's his only true friend but orders him to kill La Plaga (El Muro's actual brother) for his screw ups.
** He also promised UNIDAD that the cartel would keep its killings it a minimum (i.e. only other criminals) but it effectively depopulates a region, employs mass slave labor, and kills everyone who criticizes the cartel before dissolving their body.
*** In short, everything out of his mouth is two faced double talk.
* KarmaHoudini: No matter how badly the Ghosts destroy his empire, [[spoiler: he's given full immunity by the Department of Justice for turning snitch on other groups he's worked with.]] The standard ending has this subverted with [[spoiler: Bowman shooting him dead.]] Played straight during the good ending with [[spoiler: Bowman knowing once all of his information dries up, he'll be let go in America or be transferred to a Mexican prison where he'll "escape."]]
* 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.
* ManipulativeBastard: All of the conversations he has with his subordinates are full of him undermining their confidence, pretending to be their friend, and framing the worst possible actions in the best possible life.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: He bears some similarities with real-life Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar, such as using the same famous quote "plata o plomo" ("Silver or lead" in English, = [[DeadlyEuphemism "Either take the money or we will take your lives"]]), amassing an insane amount of wealth from his activities and performing charity projects.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Treats his subordinates who turn on him with disgust [[spoiler: but is quick to make the same sort of deal.]]
* PragmaticVillainy: El Sueno 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 Sueno 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."
** Thoroughly averted when it comes to dealing with his subordinates as his WeHaveReserves and YouHaveFailedMe tendencies quickly cause a serious manpower drain. If he was willing to show an ounce of mercy then he probably could have salvaged most of the operations which the Ghosts wrecked.
* ReligionOfEvil: Whatever your opinion of Santa Muerte worship in real life, his version is a murder cult which he believes makes him rich and powerful in exchange for the victims he gives her.
* SharpDressedMan: This hulking mountain of tattooed muscle is almost never seen wearing anything other than a crisp suit, albeit with some concessions to his profession.
* SkullForAHead: The back of his head is tattooed into a skull face.
* SmugSnake: His plan for immunity goes terribly wrong in the Bad Ending as he underestimates just how far Karen Bowman will go to remove him from power.
** Even in the GoodEnding, he seems awfully confident for a man who just lost his entire organization.
* VillainousDemotivator: El Sueno's entire management strategy basically boils down to "beatings will continue until morale improves." If his subordinates don't produce the results he wants, he just threatens to kill them and their families if they continue to fail. This bites him in the ass ''multiple'' times, as it pushes his bouchons into taking stupid risks that end up getting them killed, or pushes them into a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal against him.
* VillainsNeverLie: He takes pride in the fact he never lies, describing it as "a crime against yourself" while all his other crimes are merely crimes against humanity. However, he apparently [[MetaphoricallyTrue doesn't count having others lie for him as "lying"]]. He also uses ExactWords and leaves out details enough that his claim is more or less just B.S.
* VisionaryVillain: He does not want Santa Blanca to merely be a powerful cartel, he wants Santa Blanca to turn Bolivia into a narco-state with Santa Blanca as its shadow government, a goal he's well on his way to accomplishing when the Ghosts show up. He literally believes Santa Muerte told him to do it, too.
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: When you finally confront him face-to-face at the end of the game, it turns out he's already made a deal for full immunity with the U.S. government, much to the frustration of Agent Bowman and the Ghosts. [[MultipleEndings Depending on how much of the game is completed]], Karen either [[BoomHeadshot shoots El Sueño in the back of the head]] ([[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and summarily gets tossed in jail herself for "murder"]]), or takes El Sueño in alive, [[LuxuryPrisonSuite who is given a Florida penthouse]] [[BoxedCrook and "helps" the United States]] [[TheStoolPigeon by ratting out countless crime organizations and terrorist cells]] ([[LetsYouAndHimFight i.e. getting the US government to shut down his rivals in the drug trade for him]]).]]
-->'''El Sueno:''' [[spoiler:You may want to answer your phone, ''Officer Bowman''.]]
* WeHaveReserves: Treats everyone in his organization as expendable and easily replaced. It's not that he ''can't'' do it but that he can't do it ''quickly'' and the cartel collapses due to the fact it is done in a manner that leaves him without his usual resources.
* VowOfCelibacy: El Sueno has taken one of these, being a deeply religious man. However, comments made from him over the course of the game strongly imply that he loves Nidia Flores in a romantic sense.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Trafficking division]]

!Nidia Flores

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Trafficking. Nicknamed "La Reina de Belleza" or "the Beauty Queen", her looks hide both immense intelligence and unadulterated violence.

* AffectionateNickname: El Sueno calls her "mi reina"[[note]]"my queen"[[/note]]. She calls him "mi rey"[[note]]"my king"[[/note]] in return.
* BlatantLies: The people they send oversees for education are not being used as drug mules. Mind you, DJ Perico kind of droped that one on her.
* TheDragon[=/=]CoDragons: Of the Cartel's four sub-leaders, she and El Muro are the ones closest to El Sueno and the ones with the most authority and respect within the Cartel. El Sueno even credits her leadership with bringing Santa Blanca to prosperity and dominance back when the group was just one of the lesser of Mexico's narco gangs on the losing end of the country's drug wars.
* HellBentForLeather: Has a thing for tight, revealing black leather outfits.
* KarmaHoudini: Is one of the few cartel members to get complete immunity.
* MamaBear: She's very protective of her daughter, understandable considering the kind of life they're in. [[spoiler: She specifically tells the Ghosts when they rescue her that while they can do whatever they want to her, they better not lay a finger on her daughter. This said to the four guys who just destroyed a small army of sicarios gunning for her.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: Ends up turning snitch on the Cartel after El Sueño puts a hit out on her for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him for the last time]]. However, her initial plan was to escape on her own and she only very reluctantly ends up helping the Ghosts after they capture her and make it clear El Sueno won't stop hunting her until she and her daughter are both dead.]]
* MsFanservice: A very attractive woman with a penchant for revealing, tight black leather outfits, it's no surprise she's basically become the game's Thumbnail.gif. Justified in-game as she's a former beauty queen whose fame and exceptional physical attractiveness is how she got involved with the Cartel in the first place and also aides in her role leading the Cartel's international trafficking.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Strongly resembles Claudia Ochoa Felix, an alleged hit squad leader for the Sinoloas who went viral for her Kim Kardashian-like looks and social media photos, and has kids and a husband allegedly in the business.[[note]]The husband, not the kids.[[/note]] Felix claims she's not really connected with the cartel.
** Also has some resemblance to Sandra Alvia Beltrane (aka the Queen of the Pacific) and another famous female cartel head who had lost loved ones to the violence.
* RichBitch: How she was called by her own mother ("Madonna") and many others because she refused to be disrespected.
* SelfMadeWoman: How she sees herself.
* StrawFeminist: Her radio broadcasts have an element of this as she basically encourages women to be bossy and rude because, otherwise, men will never take them seriously otherwise. A DownplayedTrope as it's not exactly wrong, especially for her line of work, and is mostly how others treat her.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Is the most respected woman in Bolivia....or else.
* UngratefulBastard: A thoroughly justified use of the trope as she's completely aware the only reason she needs rescuing by the Ghosts is because they're the ones who arranged for the destruction of her reputation as well as business.
* UnholyMatrimony: She isn't married to El Boquita but he is as devoted to her as any husband.

!Rolando "El Boquita" Villa
Nidia's underboss. "The Little Mouth" started trafficking since he was a child. Got smitten by Nidia Flores and, after a night of drunken sex, had a daughter with her.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite his status as Nidia's Underboss, El Boquita has neither boss-level health or a unique weapon.
* BumblingDad: Is goofy and sweet to his daughter, which makes the fact you have to kill him all the more unpleasant.
* TheBrute: Is basically Nidia's henchman and loyal hanger-on.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Nidia finds Boquita alive, but kills him and saws his head off to present to El Sueno as a means of saving face, and herself. It does not work.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: After you assassinate him (and you can even walk up to and play around with the body), a cutscene at the end of the mission shows he somehow survived, though riddled with bullets and mortally wounded, long enough to return to Nidia where she cuts off his head to give to El Sueno in hopes it would be enough to save herself.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Is probably right the best thing to do when things go south is escape with what money they have rather than try to work things out with the cartel.
* UnrequitedLove: Nidia has affection for him, at best, [[spoiler: but not enough that she won't kill him herself.]]
* UnwantedSpouse: Seems he was initially this. El Boquita is way below Nidia Flores' league, in fact he was previously just one of her more talented minions. She only married him because he ended up getting her pregnant during a one-time, one-night evening of pity sex. However, in the several years the two of them spent living together raising their daughter, it seems Nidia did come to care for the guy, considering [[spoiler: she seems genuinely grieving after she's forced to kill him in an unsuccessful attempt to assuage El Sueño's wrath by giving him El Boquita's head instead after the two of them [[YouHaveFailedMe fail El Sueño for the last time]].]]

!El Cerebro

El Cerebro was a reclusive genius in a university in California. Nidia Flores discovered his talents, and hired him as designer and manager of the cartel's fleet of drug-smuggling submarines.

* AmbiguousDisorder: After he's captured, he begins casually speaking to the Ghosts with extreme detachment regarding his situation without any fear or concern for his safety, and starts going over his future plans out loud. When Bowman gets a hold of him, he goes on a long, rambling diatribe about the immortality of the rocks and whether or not rabbits concern themselves with the name of God. Bowman actually has to ask if he understands the situation he's in. [[spoiler: Of course, considering it's not actually El Cerebro, [[DecoyGetaway but a decoy meant to keep the Ghosts busy while he fled Bolivia]], it's possible the real El Cerebro doesn't have the same mental disorder, although background conversation between his sicarios seems to indicate he actually does]].
* ChildProdigy: Graduated high school at the age of 13, went on to graduate from college and join the Cartel not long after.
* DecoyGetaway: [[spoiler: Turns out, the guy you capture isn't El Cerebro, but the head of his submersible research. The real El Cerebro went into hiding long before you got to his decoy and escaped.]]
* EvilGenius: How he's described by his dossier.
* TheGhost: [[spoiler: We never actually encounter him in the game.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Gets away scott free.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Makes a break for it with [[a decoy left behind as soon as he even gets a whiff of the Shosts]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: While [[DecoyGetaway using his lead designer to act as a decoy]], El Cerebro completely fled Bolivia before the Ghosts could shut down his operation.]]

!Boyer "Boston" Reed

Contrary to his nickname, Boyer Reed actually comes from Lexington, Massachusetts. He started adventuring after college, and soon after met El Boquita. "Boston" Reed since then became head of the pilots who make sure the drugs get flown around the world.

* AcePilot: It's why Santa Blanca hired him. When you finally track him down to assassinate him, he even shows up in an attack helicopter to fight you. [[InformedAttribute You can easily shoot him down without him getting off a single shot in return.]]
* CoolShades: Defeating him unlocks his Aviator Sunglasses for the player character. However, he's never actually seen wearing them since his one personal encounter with the Ghosts happens while he's piloting a helicopter that's promptly shot down.
* ProperlyParanoid: He only ever shows up for big deals or if an emergency is happening. His use of code names infuriates Nidia. Turns out his paranoia is actually pretty sensible, compared to the rest of Santa Blanca who openly brag about their criminal deeds on public radio.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Shares a nickname with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jung George Jung]], a famous cocaine smuggler and subject of the film ''Film/{{Blow}}''.
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the only cartel member who objects to being publicly outed as one on the radio. Mind you, he publicly threatens to murder DJ Perico for saying so too.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: As if smuggling drugs for Santa Blanca wasn't enough, Reed also runs his own human trafficking ring on the side, something that not even Sueno and Nidia know about. It's this side-operation that helps the Ghosts track him down, since his partners don't even have Sueno's protection. You're also given the chance to kill one of his slaver cohorts (who talks matter-of-factly about selling people into slavery and harvesting them for their organs), and unlike other unarmed surrendering enemies the game doesn't penalize you for executing him.

!Octavio "El Pulpo" Allende
The chief accountant for Santa Blanca. He makes sure the cartel's money is clean.

* EnemyCivilWar: There was already plenty of bad blood between him and Nidia, but the Ghosts make sure it explodes into outright conflict.
* EscortMission: The final mission in his quest chain involves following him to the airport and protecting him from sicario hit squads sent by Nidia Flores. It's a particularly tough mission because you're supposed to be protecting him incognito, so instead of having any control over his movements you have to rely on his A.I. to dodge the hit squads while you follow him.
* FalseFlagOperation: The Ghosts pit him and Nidia against each other by making them look like they're stealing from each other.
* KarmaHoudini: The last we see of him, he's flying off back to Mexico. The Ghosts essentially pass up the chance to capture[=/=]kill him so he can damage Nidia's reputation.
* NiceHat: Wears one. Defeating him adds it to your character customization options.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once they've driven a wedge between him and Nidia, the Ghosts have to make sure he survives hit squads so he can get out of Bolivia and back to Mexico.

!Ricardo "El Gato" Godinez del Toro

One of the smuggling buchons, Ricardo Godinez del Toro is known for cheating death many times, earning him the nickname "El Gato", alluding to the belief that [[CatsHaveNineLives a cat has nine lives]].

* BodyDouble: The Ghosts kill one of these on the first assassination attempt. Noticeably, the body double doesn't have boss-level enhanced health, while the real El Gato does.
* HandCannon: His custom weapon is a gold-plated .50 cal Desert Eagle with Incan engravings. His body double even carries an identical copy. It's even named "la Novena" (the Nine), again in reference to the "nine lives" trope.
* KillTheOnesYouLove: His surgeon father had a narco boss who died on the operating room table. Rather than have his father die of a long torture session, he killed him quickly.
* MadeOfIron: He's been shot, stabbed, blown up, garroted, drowned, poisoned and still came back. Not so much when the Ghosts catch up to him.

!Antonio Garcia-Taylor

The buchon in charge of managing Santa Blanca's cocaine stockpiles until they can be transported out of Bolivia. Antonio has become addicted to the coke he's supposed to be guarding, which has made him reactionary and paranoid.

* DomesticAbuse: He's known for hitting his wife, even right in front of other people.
* GetBackHereBoss: When the Ghosts finally find a lead on him, he's driving around the province in his super sports car and must be brought to a non-lethal stop before he can be captured. Depending on how well you do in waylaying him, this mission can rapidly devolve into a hectic car chase, and woe betide you if you don't have a very fast car on hand if he spots you too soon.
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Antonio has been stealing coke from the stockpiles for a while.
* HairOfTheDog: Bowman interrogates him by forcing him at gunpoint to do lines of coke until he either overdoses and dies or gives up information on Nidia's operation. Eventually his body can't handle it anymore and he cracks.
* OddNameOut: Most of the Cartel's buchons have colorful and intimidating nicknames, while Antonio is just known as... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Antonio]].
* TheParanoiac: His defining character trait thanks to his massive cocaine consumption. Almost the entirety of Bowman's briefing vid on him is dedicated to the ludicrous extremes his paranoia has grown to over the years.
* WouldHitAGirl: No Santa Blanca goon is averse to this, but he's the one most heavily associated with violence against women in particular. Aside from the DomesticAbuse mentioned above, he's also responsible for the kidnapping, torture, murder and enslavement of whole villages' worth of women from all over Bolivia.

!Dolores "La Cabra" Serrano de Perez

One of the smuggling buchons and a close childhood friend of Nidia Flores, "la Cabra" (the Goat) manages Santa Blanca's ties to Peru's druglords. Appears in the DLC mission "The Peruvian Connection".

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Influence division]]

!Gustavo "El Cardenal" Serrano

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Influence. The Cardinal was a priest, excommunicated from the Church for blasphemy - spreading the word of Santa Muerte. El Sueno took him in, and he continues his preaching to this day.

* AffablyEvil: While he's the head of Santa Blanca's influence and propaganda, he still has strong moral and religious convictions. He tells La Santera that under no uncertain terms will he tolerate her cult's practice of human sacrifice, for instance, as it warps the worship of Santa Muerte. [[spoiler: He also strongly objects to the Cartel kidnapping and selling children, though he still backs down when El Sueno threatens to kill him.]]
* AntiVillain: He's only supporting Santa Blanca because of [[PetTheDog how they donate a large amount of their money to charities]], and he is also the most moral of Santa Blanca's leaders: while every other SB leader had personally engaged in criminal activities and murders, El Cardenal's worst criminal activity was helping to launder Santa Blanca's money [[spoiler: and [[TheAtoner he "confesses his sins"]] with little provocation from Bowman - in contrast, El Yayo and Nidia Flores both demand conditions from Bowman before they testify, and El Muro [[UndyingLoyalty refuses to say a word about El Sueno]], [[OnlyOneAllowedToKillYou even if it's because he wanted to kill Sueno himself]].]]
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler: Played with, as the Ghosts don't use El Cardenal's words against him, they use Ramon Feliz's video of El Sueno's child trafficking ring, which El Cardenal was trying to claim was a hoax. This evidence turned the people against El Cardenal, and allowed the Ghosts to arrest him in the ensuing chaos.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As stated above, he is disgusted by the practice of human sacrifice [[spoiler:as well as Santa Blanca's child trafficking.]]
** Played for laughs in the fact that he is okay with a massive drug cartel but is DISGUSTED by the DirtyCommunists in the country.
* TheHeretic: An actual unambiguous example as he's warped Christian doctrine to worship Santa Muerte as an actual god. Ironically, he believes she's a positive force for good while virtually all of his followers have turned it into a ReligionOfEvil.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Actually seems to think cocaine trafficking is a legitimate business and El Sueno is a man of the people rather than a CompleteMonster.
* MoralMyopia: More like willful blindness to the evils of Santa Blanca.
* ReligionOfEvil: Averted. He teaches Santa Muerte as a force for good and self-achievement.
* SinisterMinister: He dresses in the robes and vestments of a Catholic cardinal, despite the fact that he's been excommunicated and extols the virtues of Santa Muerte, whose worship the Catholic church has historically frowned upon. He also acts as El Sueño's spiritual adviser.
* TakeThat: One Kingslayer audio file is all about one of his priests asking him for advice on how to convince more people to join their congregation. El Cardenal admonishes him for the mere suggestion of going on a proselytization spree because they're not Mormons and don't hand out brochures like The Watchtower. He wants to win new followers by performing miracles and providing actual support to the people.
* TotalitarianUtilitarian: A DownplayedTrope example as he thinks cocaine trafficking is a good way to end poverty in Bolivia.
* VillainousFriendship: Is El Sueno's spiritual advisor--ironically, actually trying to get El Sueno to be a good and upstanding man.

!Ramon Feliz
El Cardenal's underboss. A former journalist who reported against Santa Blanca. El Sueño "pressured" him into blogging good things about the Cartel. [[spoiler:While he seems subservient to his new overlords, Ramon still has a few cards up his sleeve...]]

* AntiVillain: Even moreso than El Cardenal, as he knows the Santa Blanca are evil, and openly railed against them in both the official newspapers, and then an underground blog. However, after El Sueño tracked Ramon down and tortured him, he's basically been forced to tell pro-Santa Blanca stories under pain of death.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Played with - he started to make pro-Santa Blanca stories after El Sueño tortured him, but Ramon still personally hates them, and hates being forced to publish "their truth" even more, [[spoiler: to the point he was almost DrivenToSuicide until given some last-minute info about SB's child-trafficking ring, and the second he got it, [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight he quickly tried to publish it]] - [[HeelFaceDoorSlam unfortunately, the Cartel butchered him before he could publish his findings]], leaving it up to the Ghosts to find his work and reveal it for him.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Tortured, murdered and strung up on the wall of his apartment.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Very nearly, until he got some last-minute info about SB's child-trafficking ring. Considering what happened after, he probably should have went through with it.]]
* IntrepidReporter: He used to be one, starting out as one of Santa Blanca's most vocal opponents. Then he was forced to write propaganda for the cartel after El Sueño [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured him into working for him.]]
* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: The Ghosts find him dead, strung up on a wall after he attempted to betray Santa Blanca to break the story on their child smuggling ring.]]

!Marco "DJ Perico" Garcia
Host of Radio Santa Blanca. A Latino-American rapper that wanted to make his own stand in the music scene, Perico eventually joined the Cartel as a Sicario, where his "talents" - rather the lack of it - was noted by El Sueño.

* ConspiracyTheorist: One of his broadcasts questions if Santa Blanca was ''really'' behind the bombing of the US Embassy that set the campaign into motion. [[spoiler: Later it turns out ''he's right.'' Sandoval bombed the Embassy himself and blamed Santa Blanca for it.]]
* DumbassDJ: The host and DJ of Radio Santa Blanca. He's also very annoying and ''very'' stupid.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: When he was a sicario in the early days of the Santa Blanca Cartel, he very quickly managed to piss off just about everyone through his annoying personality and total incompetence. The only reason he didn't end up killed was because El Sueño thought he was funny and took a liking to him.
* {{Hypocrite}}: One of his PSA's to his sicario listeners is on the importance of gun safety, in spite of the below-listed incident involving the assault rifle version of a shotgun bong.
* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: He once tried to turn an AR-15 into an improvised bong, which ended up going off and killing his former bodyguard's dog.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When Perico was originally given a job as a sicario, he was tasked with shooting two men in a truck. Despite shooting in the windows, [[EpicFail Perico somehow completely missed BOTH of his targets]] while killing their dog instead, a fuckup that even left Bowman utterly exasperated with Perico's incompetence.
* IsThisThingStillOn: As one Op:Kingslayer file reveals, he cussed out several Santa Blanca buchons, including El Sueño himself, while still live on the air when one of his engineers accidentally left his mic on after his show. The file ends with him receiving a ''very'' ominous phone call from El Sueño.
* KarmaHoudini: Apart from being threatened and interrogated for his station's encryption key, he suffers no real comeuppance from the Ghosts and is allowed to continue broadcasting.
** The difference being he now has to broadcast statements made by Pac Katari on behalf of the rebels. Comments made by NPC's indicate that Perico is now a laughingstock because of this.
* KickedUpstairs: El Sueño understood Perico didn't know how to shoot a gun, but knew how to shoot his mouth, and so "promoted" him to being the host and DJ of Radio Santa Blanca, so he could spread the word of the cartel on pirate radio.
* MeaningfulName: "Perico" is Spanish for "Parakeet" or "Parrot", it's also a slang term for cocaine. Appropriate, given the subject matter of his broadcasts and his ceaseless chattering on them.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Let's put it this way: most of the buchon's respond with anger or fear at being captured, and threaten and plead with the Ghosts when confronted. Perico's response? Chide the Ghosts for harming him ''because he's famous.''
* YouWillBeSpared: El Sueño lets him off the hook for his screw-ups a surprising number of times, which is quite notable considering how ruthlessly Sueño enforces YouHaveFailedMe with his other subordinates.

!Maria "La Santera" del Rocio Mendez
Underboss. Maria del Rocio Mendez is head of the cartel's Santa Muerte cult, author of Santa Muerte's version of the Bible, as well as the buchon in charge of Santa Blanca's gold mining operations. Nicknamed the "Saintmaker".

* BadHabits: She dresses like a nun, with the only standout difference from the standard vestments being a wreath of brightly-colored flowers on her head.
* HumanSacrifice: Practices it, much to the offense of her boss El Cardenal.
* ReligionOfEvil: Her version of Santa Muerte worship, which includes among other things human sacrifice rituals. Her sicarios are also described as being fanatically devoted to her.
* YouHaveFailedMe: Thanks to the Ghosts' efforts in sabotaging her gold mining operations, El Sueño has her captured and slated for execution, which the Ghosts rescue her from.

!Javier Coronel "Carzita" Vallardo
An international playboy who makes sure celebrities and politicians not only party with the cartel, but generously donate.

* {{Antivillain}}: Carzita isn't anywhere near the worst of Santa Blanca's lieutenants and mostly is just a party-host and resort manager.
* {{BFG}}: Carzita is a complete and utter NonActionGuy, yet his personal weapon is Llamativo, a [[BlingBlingBang blinged-out]], heavily upgraded [[MoreDakka Mk249 machine gun]], which is one of the most powerful guns in the game. While the base model can be made slightly more powerful overall, unlocking it and all its top-tier upgrades is one hell of a lot more difficult than taking Carzita out of the picture, especially since his personal mission isn't even the last and most difficult in his province.
* HookersAndBlow: Pretty much the way he provides Santa Blanca with an endless number of political friends.
* KarmaHoudini: The Ghosts talk about how even though he's screwed with the cartel, he'll pop back up doing the same thing for another group.
** YouHaveFailedMe: Then again, the montage after El Cardenal is brought down shows Carzita face down on the ground as though dead, and given El Sueno's policy on failure it's likely that Sueño had him executed both for his colossal fuck-up in Agua Verde and for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer being useful to his operation]].
* UpperClassTwit: Carzita is the high-living socialite son of a Mexican telecom mogul. Bowman even describes him as a "meppie"; a Mexican preppie (or a "prep-sican", if you prefer).

!Marcelo "El Chido" Rios
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.
* CoolCar: One of the missions in his province consists of stealing his heavily guarded muscle car in order to damage his macho rep. Even the Ghosts think the ride is awesome.
* DirtyCoward: He tries to make a run for it if he's alerted during his final mission, but given that he's a civilian without any combat training, this reaction is pretty justified.
* GangstaRap: Although his music is guitar based, during the briefing video about him Bowman compares narcocorridos to gangsta rap.
* 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.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Production division]]
!Rudolfo "El Yayo" Yana

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Production. A Bolivian master coca planter, El Yayo knows what types of coca to plant to produce quality cocaine.

* {{Antivillain}}: Is a cocaine producer, true, but really just wanted to produce coca leaves according to his belief system.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: According to El Sueño, El Yayo only grew coca as part of Bolivia's ancient native heritage, and never actually processed it into cocaine until the American-backed "Dignity Project" resulted in the destruction of most of the coca fields, forcing El Yayo to turn to cocaine production to preserve his livelihood.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He is fiercely defensive of his family, and he's working for the Santa Blanca to ensure they will be protected. He even has [[OverlordJr one of his grandsons working as a buchon under his command]]. However, this quickly turns to haunt El Yayo [[spoiler: as his grandson is DrivenToSuicide [[WellDoneSonGuy over shaming his grandfather]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after the Ghosts dismantle his operation]], [[IHaveYourWife and two other members of El Yayo's family are taken hostage by the Santa Blanca to force him to continue working as the production branch keeps getting dismantled]]]].
* EvilOldFolks: One of the oldest members of the Santa Blanca cartel, Yayo is an old-school [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocalero cocalero]] who is considered a master coca grower and cocaine producer.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Once the Ghosts sufficiently disrupts the cartel's operations, [[spoiler: El Sueño will force El Yayo to drastically increase cocaine production to make up for the financial losses caused by the Ghosts. In order to do this, El Yayo is forced to rush production and cut his cocaine with filler; unfortunately, El Sueño considers selling an inferior product to be damaging to Santa Blanca's brand reputation, and puts out a hit on El Yayo, which persuades El Yayo to make a deal with the Ghosts for protection.]]
* PuppetKing: El Yayo only has nominal authority over his Santa Blanca subordinates; a collectible audio log showing a conversation between him and his own bouchon El Wey shows that El Yayo has no actual control over El Wey or his sicarios.
* UngratefulBastard: The Ghosts consider El Yayo and his family to be this, as they continue to be quite vitriolic towards the Americans even after the Ghosts save them from Santa Blanca. However, if you're familiar with the very shady history of American CIA intervention in Bolivia in the 90's, [[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.

!Katrine "La Gringa" Svensden
El Yayo's underboss. A well-known medical prodigy who joined a charity aid in Bolivia, now stuck in a limbo due to the charity organisation being involved in a government funding scandal. El Sueño bribed her into producing cocaine for him, promising higher pay.

* AntiVillain: Even more so than El Chido. Everything she did in service to Santa Blanca, she did to survive after she was left stranded in a foreign country with no job, no way home, her reputation in tatters, and finally being given [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer she couldn't refuse]] by El Sueño. Just about every Kingslayer file about her and every cutscene she appears in makes it clear how little she wants to be part of the cartel and its business. She also secretly patches up wounded civilians and even rebels, and she never displays any jerkass behavior, either.
* BreakTheCutie: She started off as a woman with a bright future in medicine, working for charity and loved by the people of Bolivia. Then her charity organization was exposed as a CIA scam, her colleagues lost all respect for her, and she found herself stuck in Bolivia with nowhere to go and with very few prospects.
* BrokenPedestal: Once people discovered that the NGO La Gringa was a part of was actually a front for the CIA, it utterly destroyed her reputation, both to the people she used to help and her colleagues.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Svensden's fall from grace and her eventual transformation into La Gringa is solely the CIA's fault. It was their front company that annihilated her reputation when it blew up and left her with no choice but to accept El Sueño's offer to work for him. It also makes Bowman's contemptuous treatment of her all the worse.
* DamselInDistress: Her final mission is a fairly complex one and revolves around saving her life in several ways. First she must be extracted from her house while it's under siege by a small army of sicarios. When she's found in the basement, she's already taken a bullet to the shoulder and is slowly bleeding out, forcing the Ghosts to rush her to a nearby rebel doctor within a set time limit. While the doctor is patching her up, more sicarios attack the clinic in an effort to kill her, turning the mission into a HoldTheLine scenario. Finally, when she's fit for transportation again, the Ghosts extract her and hand her over to Bowman who performs even more emergency surgery on her, accompanied by an awful amount of gloating (see below) while the poor woman screams and whimpers in agony.
* HotScientist: A smoking-hot blonde with a Mensa-level IQ who fills out a lab coat like nobody's business. Sadly, there's a huge difference between her gorgeous cutscene looks and her actual in-game model.
* ReformedButRejected: Even after her secret involvement with the rebels is revealed, Bowman has no sympathy for her and even gloats to her about how much PrisonRape she has to look forward to.

!Gonzalo "El Emisario" Yana

One of Santa Blanca's production buchons, and the grandson of Production head El Yayo. "The Emissary" greatly respects and admires his grandfather and doesn't want to disappoint him.

* {{Antivillain}}: Averted. We see just how far Gonzalo is willing to go when he attacks a hospital to turn it into a drug lab.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the Ghosts continually disrupt the production labs in his charge, he hangs himself out of shame for letting El Yayo down, while taking the blame for the loss of the labs.]]
* KickTheDog: His aforementioned attack on a hospital.
* {{Nepotism}}: Is more or less stated to not know the first thing about cocaine production but is very good at convincing people to buy it. Despite that, he is in charge of the production section under his grandfather.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler: El Emisario kills himself and writes a note to El Sueno taking full responsibility for the loss of the production labs, in the hopes that Sueño won't blame El Yayo. Unfortunately, all Sueño cares about is the production numbers for his cocaine, and blames El Yayo regardless for any drop in production.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Gonzalo desperately wants his grandfather's approval, to the point of doing everything for him.

!Ruperta "Madre Coca" Faro
Head of the coca harvesting operation in Tabacal. An elderly woman with a reputation for violence and ruthlessness.

* 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.]]
* EvilOldFolks: Possibly the worst person in the cartel after El Sueno.
* {{Irony}}: Her son died due to a cocaine overdose after a long-time addiction. Her way of coping was to become a cocaine producer herself, eventually becoming the head of the Santa Blanca cartel's coca harvesting operation.
* NeverMessWithGranny: While she's advanced in age, Madre Coca is anything but a doting old woman, and has a well-earned reputation as a ruthless cartel buchon. This is reflected in her weapon of choice: [[MoreDakka a personalized PKP Pecheneg medium machine gun]]. Her response when a U.S Special Forces team abducts her favorite lieutenant? Personally lead an ambush against them under the guise of a deal.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She's come to dote on her favored lieutenant, Salazar, because he reminds her of her deceased son.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Uses forced labor and horrific working conditions despite the fact the cartel rakes in billions.

!Marcus Jensen

A skilled American chemist headhunted by La Gringa straight out of university, he oversees Santa Blanca's coca production and trains the Cartel's members in the art of making cocaine.

* BlackAndNerdy: He was a dean's list chemistry major and trains Santa Blanca's "students" as if he were a university professor, complete with classroom labs and graded test papers.
* BullyingADragon: After he's captured by the Ghosts, he tries to worm his way out of it with both the letter of the law ("I'm here on a legitimate work visa and ''you'' don't even have legal jurisdiction here!") and an arrogant rant about choices and "personal liberty". Bowman turns it back on him by pointing out that, since the Ghosts are operating completely outside the law, they aren't bound by the letter of it and will exercise their "personal liberty" to blow Jensen's brains out and bury his body in a ditch if he doesn't cooperate. Jensen folds quickly.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears a pair of NerdGlasses and is an unrepentantly greedy sociopath.
* {{Greed}}: Just about everything Jensen does is motivated by the promise of financial gain. It's why he went into chemistry and why he joined the cartel. [[spoiler: When he refuses to tell the Ghosts the details of his cocaine production methods, it isn't out of loyalty or fear of the cartel, but because it's "proprietary information." As mentioned above, he doesn't hold onto this for long once Bowman informs him he can either reveal the info or be shot and buried in a shallow grave.]]
* JerkJustifications: Tries to rationalize knowingly helping a powerful drug cartel ramp up it's cocaine production by saying that "If it's not me, it's just gonna be someone else. So it might as well be me, right?" and "''I'' didn't force anyone to take the drugs. People make their own choices, so it's ''their'' fault the cartel is so powerful." The Ghosts are less than impressed with his flimsy excuses.

!Pedro "El Wey" Gil

The Gil family is a lineage of pyrolusite miners. Pedro has greater ambitions - to improve pyrolusite production so that he can create the best quality cocaine ever. As well as make money out of it. Things got explosive in between, and El Wey is stuck with a disfigured face.

* AffablyEvil: Despite his intimidating looks, he's described as an affable guy. Ricky Sandoval, when he met him, even remarked that his can-do attitude and friendly mannerisms might have made his post-accident life good for an inspirational story, were it not for the fact that he's a murderous cartel thug. [[spoiler: When the Ghosts capture him, he's rather even-tempered about the whole thing, and even regards the Ghosts as professionals and states his respect.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't ever talk about his face.
* CallingCard: He uses shotgun shells with melted-down Mexican pesos in the place of shot. It's later used by the Ghosts to frame him for the murder of a UNIDAD officer.
* FacialHorror: The left side of his face was burned in a lab accident.
** TwoFaced
* WorthyOpponent: He's pleased to learn that the men sent after him are professionals, and seems to hold the Ghosts in high regard.

!White Hat

A production buchon of the Cartel. The Ghosts were tasked with dealing with him in the announcement trailer.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: What does White Hat wear?
* [[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Game]]: He only appeared in the announcement trailer for the game. [[spoiler:His lab/church compound was used by an unnamed chemist in the final game]].

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Santa Blanca Security division]]
!Francisco "El Muro" Munguia

The Santa Blanca cartel's head of Security, and a childhood friend of El Sueno.

* TheDragon[=/=]CoDragons: El Muro has been best friends with El Sueño since childhood, and as the head of Santa Blanca's Security division a decent portion of the Cartel's sicarios are personally loyal to him instead of El Sueno. [[spoiler: This helps create a rift when El Muro turns against El Sueno.]]
* BigBadWannabe: He thinks he's going to kill El Sueno and the Ghosts both, even after being captured.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Calls Bowman a whore and says he'll kill them and the Ghosts despite the fact they managed to capture him in the middle of an armed military base.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's very protective of his little brother, La Plaga. [[spoiler: He betrays El Sueno to protect his brother from his wrath, and when La Plaga is killed (unbeknownst to him by the Ghosts), he turns on Sueño to avenge his death.]]
* GeneralFailure: Should be the man taking out the Ghosts but he's too caught up in his family issues (which start from the very first mission) to do much work against them. Indeed, he's actively rebelling against El Sueno soon after.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: He's a former member of the Mexican Army's special forces, and it's heavily implied that he was working for the country's narco-bosses pretty much from the beginning.
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Despite wanting to kill El Sueno, he refuses to rat on him out of revenge or even for his own sake, as being a snitch would make him less of a man, even against the man who killed his brother.]]
* {{Irony}}: La Plaga was killed by the Ghosts rather than El Sueno but they, obviously, never tell him and El Sueno doesn't bother to correct him.
* {{Misblamed}}: El Muro blames El Sueno for La Plaga's death.
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: "The Wall" can fire a gun and fuck your day up if you as much as rub him the wrong way.
* OnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: [[spoiler: Holds this attitude towards El Sueño after their falling out.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After La Plaga is killed, he attempts to kill El Sueño, thinking he's the party responsible.]]
* SchizoTech: The guy wears chainmail under his tactical vest when he's captured. While RealLife militaries and police forces [[TruthInTelevision really are experimenting]] with modern takes on this ancient gear, it's still something you don't see everyday.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He basically believes he can handle El Sueno but his rebellion is a complete failure.
** The UNIDAD team hired to take El Sueno out is slaughtered and the corpse of their leader stabbed multiple times with dollar bills on the knives.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We don't know what happens to El Muro after his capture. Given his refusal to cooperate, it's probable he simply went to jail.

!Ignacio "La Plaga" Perez Cervantes

El Muro's underboss and half-brother, and Santa Blanca's head sicario. His socially-active facade goes side-by-side with his tendencies to commit violent executions - [[WouldHurtAChild even kids]] - and he isn't shy to brag about it. He recruited La Yuri and El Polito after they saved his life by performing surgery to remove the bullets he got from a shootout.

* CoolHat: Wears a nifty black cowboy hat. Kill him and it's yours.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Santa Blanca spends billions of dollars of their drug money maintaining a VillainWithGoodPublicity position in the country and does all of its murders of innocents discreetly with a man who dissolves their bodies. So, what does La Plaga do? Murders innocents at random and puts the video on the internet. No wonder El Sueno wanted to kill him.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: One of the videos he posts on social media features him executing the child of a Santa Blanca lookout who apparently failed his duties. This contributes to El Sueno's decision to have him disposed of.]]
* TheHedonist: Is described as this, with a social media feed consisting of his partying antics [[BreadEggsMilkSquick interspersed with videos of executions of the cartel's enemies.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFrom: You'd avoid La Plaga like [[{{Pun}} the Plague]] had he not be the charming sociable party boy he's fronting as.
* StupidEvil: His posting of retaliatory executions of civilians in response the actions of the Ghosts enrages his boss, because El Sueno knows that taking it out on the populace will just alienate the people and drive them into the arms of their enemies, rather than scare them into silence.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Plays a big role in the fall of Santa Blanca as a cartel because after he screws up by advertising the cartel's murder of innocents, El Sueno orders his death, which turns El Muro against him, and basically ends up destroying their security apparatus when they need it most. The Ghosts may have been able to do their job regardless but it certainly made it a lot easier.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Averted but just barely. His brother and DJ Perico seemed to like him, at least. Everyone else in Bolivia seems to have despised him.

!Zapatero "El Polito" Gonzales and Gloria "La Yuri" Fernandez

Santa Blanca's chief interrogators. El Polito and La Yuri were a surgeon and nurse team at a local hospital when saved La Plaga's life after he was injured in a shootout, which La Plaga repaid them for by bringing them into the Santa Blanca cartel. The torture and execution of Ricky was their doing.

* BattleCouple: You face these two together.
* CoolCar: Polito owns what is essentially a 5th generation Lamborghini supercar.
* FatAndSkinny: Polito is the skinny to Yuri's fat.
* GatlingGood: Yuri jumps behind a conveniently placed minigun emplacement at the beginning of the boss fight, which combined with her significantly enhanced health make her quite a decent threat.
* ILoveTheDead: In a rather graphic audio recording, La Yuri takes the pants off of one of her recently-expired victims, and proceeds to fawn over the size of his manhood.
* ItsPersonal: For Bowman and Pac Katari, they were involved in both Sandoval's interrogation and Amaru's torture, making them priority one on Kingslayer's hit list.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Killing either one will send the other into a desperate rage, [[RealityEnsues though it doesn't actually give them more resistance, damage, or anything like that]].
* SickeningSweethearts: These two fawn over each other nonstop, which Amaru claims to have felt more painful than their actual torture of him. You get to witness a truly disturbing example of their amorous gushing while stalking them in their TortureCellar, if you don't feel like interrupting them.
* SoftSpokenSadist: A lovey dovey husband and wife who clearly revel in the horrors they inflict and have their own private torture room.
* StarterVillain: They're your first major targets in the Cartel leadership hierarchy.
* StoutStrength: Yuri is a very large woman and also happens to be the most durable enemy in the game [[{{Kevlard}} for some reason.]] She's able to withstand about twice as much damage as a regular boss enemy; it can take up to 15 shots to the chest or multiple headshots to drop her, or up to two dozen shots if you use a suppressed weapon. Combined with her use of a minigun turret, and she can actually mow down your entire A.I. controlled Ghost Squad by herself if you send them in against her without backing them up.
* TortureCellar: A ''multilevel'' one beneath a creepy hunting lodge in the Bolivian mountains. To give you a sense of what awaits in that evil place, the whole facility seems directly inspired by ''[[Franchise/{{Saw}} Saw]]'' and ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''.
* TortureTechnician: The two are in charge of torturing enemies of the cartel.

!Carl Bookhart

Chief of training for Santa Blanca's elite sicarios. He's a former Army Ranger who defected after an IED injured his squad and got him kicked out of the military.

* BeardOfEvil: Sports one of the longest in the game.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Was a sergeant with the Third Battalion of the [=75th=] Ranger Regiment, until he had to retire after getting caught in an IED blast in Iraq.
* EliteMooks: Bookhart's responsible for training the elite sicarios you encounter in the later parts of the game, and he's personally protected by a large number of them as well as several [[HeavilyArmoredMook Heavy troopers]].
* EvilFormerFriend: Nomad mentions having previously served with Bookhart in the Rangers, and is understandably disturbed when learning that he's a Cartel leader.
* {{Foil}}: To Nomad. Both are [[BadassBeard mustachioed]] former Rangers. The difference being Carl is now joining a cartel as a military instructor, while Nomad is in a black ops taskforce sent to destroy the cartel. To top it off, your A.I. teammates tend to not follow you into Bookhart's inner sanctum due to pathing issues, so in single player Nomad usually ends up facing off against Bookhart solo.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Lapsed back into criminal activity after his forced retirement from the US Army, ultimately joining the Santa Blanca Cartel.
* GlassCannon: Bookhart himself has standard boss health and can be gunned down pretty quickly with any automatic weapon, but he's got amazing aim and incredible [=DPS=] with his custom [=M4A1=], and can mow you down surprisingly fast in turn. He's also really fond of throwing grenades.
* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: His first test for new sicarios involves giving them a weapon (a gun, a knife, or a machete) and ordering them to kill a prisoner with it, prisoners who are often children. Any who refuse will be next in line to die.
* InHarmsWay: It's indicated that his primary motive in joining the Cartel as a combat instructor was so he could still feel useful, the military being the only thing he was ever good at and being unable to continue serving with the US Army after his injuries in Iraq.
* MoreDakka: Bookhart's got a minigun turret covering the hallway leading to him, as well as two minigun turrets backing him up inside his boss room.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Bookhart was given a medical discharge from the Army after he exhibited signs of PTSD and psychotic behavior. Unable to readjust to civilian life, he had frequent run-ins with the law and was unable to hold a job for more than a few weeks. During a chance meeting with El Muro in Mexico, El Muro recognized Bookhart's talent and gave him a job training Santa Blanca's elite sicarios.
* TheSpartanWay: The training program he runs for the Santa Blanca Cartel's elite sicarios, with use of live ammunition and real knives during training. As a result, more candidates are permanently injured or killed in training than graduate, but those who do are forces to be reckoned with.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Was given the choice of joining the Army or jail time at the age of 18, and chose the former.
* WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife: After killing him, the Ghosts remark that it's a lousy way for an Army Ranger to die.
* WouldHarmAChild: As part of their training, Bookhart's sicarios are forced to murder an innocent so that they will know what it's like to kill. Sometimes the victim is a man, sometimes it's a woman, and sometimes it's a ''child''. Sicarios who refuse to participate are killed themselves by their fellow recruits.

!Raul "El Pozolero" Murillo

The man responsible for disposing of the bodies of Santa Blanca's victims in order to hide the evidence of the murders, which he does by dissolving them in sodium hydroxide, which has earned him the nickname "the Stewmaker".

* AffablyEvil: Aside from assisting in the disposing of bodies, doesn't commit any crimes and is pleasant to a fault.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Does not find death or dead things distressing. Also is a grown man who talks to his teddy bear.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is a oddball who has disposed of literally hundreds of corpses for the cartel, if not thousands.
** Also a CloudCuckoolander who loves his teddy bear but insists he's not afraid of the dark. He just worries the teddy bear will get lonely without him.
* TheDreaded: The Cartel's sicarios are terrified of him, and even the Ghosts are concerned about confronting him after seeing how much he's got the sicarios spooked.
** MistakenForBadass: El Pozolero turns out to be [[spoiler: a mild-mannered man with the innocent mind of a child. The sicarios think he's a terrifying psycho because of how horrifying his work is, but the truth is his mind simply isn't developed enough to grasp how disturbing it all really is.]]
* ManChild: [[spoiler: Turns out to be one of the non-psychopathic variety. When the Ghosts kidnap him he even tells them he can't be gone for too long or else his teddy bear will wonder what happened to him.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: His work involves not only dissolving a human body to soup, but then destroying whatever bones or teeth couldn't be melted down into a fine powder.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "El Pozolero" is based on [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012602190.html a real life criminal who was active in the Mexican drug wars]], even using the same nickname, [[spoiler:though the real life version wasn't developmentally disabled]].

[[folder:UNIDAD]]

The Bolivian military police that used to fight the cartel but have since made an alliance with them.

* EliteMooks: Since the UNIDAD forces started out as a paramilitary force, they are better armed and equipped then the average cartel grunts. In fact the basic UNIDAD soldier is as tough as the Cartel's Elite Mooks.
* EnemyCivilWar: Santa Blanca may have UNIDAD on their payroll, but it's not exactly a firm alliance and both sides are quite willing to shoot at each other. In addition, some random encounters have Santa Blanca sicarios being held prisoner by UNIDAD forces.
* FacelessGoons: Most UNIDAD soldiers wear face concealing balaclava.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: UNIDAD is a paramilitary organisation originally set up by the Bolivian government to combat drug cartels, but now it is on Santa Blanca's payroll.
* OnlySixFaces: UNIDAD officers have a limited number of face models, even though ''several of them take part in in-game cutscenes'', which ends up giving the impression that UNIDAD is some kind of CloneArmy.
* RespawningEnemies: While they are tougher than Cartel Sicarios, the biggest threat posed by UNIDAD forces is the fact that, unless they're killed in stealth, fighting them will immediately trigger a UNIDAD alert resulting in infinite waves of UNIDAD reinforcements of steadily increasing difficulty.

!General Baro

The Bolivian Major General in charge of UNIDAD. He brokered the deal between Santa Blanca and the Bolivian government.

* AFatherToHisMen: He cares for the men under his command, and after his capture, laments that the soldiers the Ghosts killed while doing so were good men.
* AntiVillain: Baro is a genuine patriot who only made a deal with the Cartel in order to avert further bloodshed once it became clear they were too entrenched and powerful for UNIDAD to defeat. He's even been trying to act against the Cartel once it became clear the violence and brutality they're inflicting upon Bolivia is just as bad as it would be if there was open war.
* DealWithTheDevil: Santa Blanca didn't try to moderate its activities after they made a deal with UNIDAD but made them much much worse.
* MoralityPet: His daughter is one to him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction to the Santa Blanca takeover of his country.
* PapaWolf: His response to the Ghosts finding and forcing his daughter to call him? Set up an ambush.
* PuppetKing: Despite being the commanding officer of UNIDAD, Baro has lost control of much of the organization, with many of his officers pursuing their own agenda and making deals with the Cartel, which also partially explains why UNIDAD continues to be just as hostile to you even after you [[spoiler: succeed in forming an alliance with him.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Despite threatening his daughter to draw him out, then kidnapping him, the Ghosts still treat Baro with the respect due to an officer of his rank. Though this is partly due to military courtesy and partly due to the Ghosts wanting to gain his assistance against the Cartel.

!"El Comandante" a.k.a. Lt. Colonel [[spoiler: Miguel De los Montreros]]

A lieutenant-colonel in UNIDAD, El Comandante is a legendary soldier, working closely with Santa Blanca. He and his men are responsible for the destruction of rebel forces in the area of Media Luna and turning it into a UNIDAD stronghold. He keeps his identity a tightly-controlled secret, and wears a black ballistic mask at all times. The Ghosts face him in the "UNIDAD Conspiracy" DLC.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Despite his impressive-looking armor and reputation as a legendary soldier, El Comandante isn't any tougher than any other normal boss in the game when you finally start gunning for him. Weaver even quips "Guess he wasn't as badass as he thought!" when you blow him away. The real challenge is that you have to hunt him down in the midst of a massive UNIDAD base swarming with soldiers.
* {{Archenemy}}: Is this to the rebels, having more or less defeated them by the time of the game.
* BonusBoss: Like La Cabra, he's a DLC assassination target and not part of the game's normal main quest progression.
* ColonelBadass: How he portrays himself. He's more like a FakeUltimateHero.
* TheFaceless: He's never without his black ballistic mask, even wearing it in official military documentation papers.
* EnemyMine: El Sueño does not like having a member of UNIDAD working so closely with the cartel, and would generally prefer to keep them out of cartel operations entirely. [[spoiler: It's later revealed he was justified in his suspicions; El Comandante is actively looking for ways to disrupt or destroy Santa Blanca to take over the cocaine trade himself.]]
* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler: He turns out to be the son of one of Bolivia's top leaders, having been sent down to Cartel territory to covertly usurp Santa Blanca's cocaine production infrastructure away from them.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMan: To conceal his identity he wears a black ballistic mask with red paint on it that resembles claw marks.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Narco Road]]

!!El Invisible[=/=]El Zamuro[=/=][[spoiler:Mr. Sonrisa]][=/=][[spoiler:Jose Vargas]]
The BigBad of the ''Narco Road'' DLC campaign, El Invisible is the mysterious chief coordinator behind Santa Blanca's smuggling network. No one knows El Invisible's identity or even what he[=/=]she looks like, as they are a master hacker who never deals with anyone face-to-face and uses a voice modulator to conceal their identity.

* DiabolicalMastermind: His actions are much more "next-level supervillain shit" compared to the Cartel bosses from the main game.
* TheFaceless: No one knows what El Invisible looks like.
* FinalBoss: Of the ''Narco Road'' DLC. He fights you in an AceCustom military helicopter that's significantly more durable than normal. He's also the only boss of the DLC who isn't a CutsceneBoss.
** PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The ''real'' El Invisible is assassinated in the epilogue, living in a humble shack in the Grand Canyon without any security or protection other than a pistol. You basically just kick in his door and blow him away.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: His [[spoiler: hacking of the CIA's mainframe and divulging all of their dirty laundry on the internet]] results in the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros mercenary group to help purge all CIA spies operating inside their country, leading to the events of ''Fallen Ghosts''.
* ManipulativeBastard[=/=]TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were AllAccordingToPlan for him, as he ''wanted'' you to steal his PDA and bring it back to CIA headquarters so the virus hidden inside it could hack their network.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The events of the entire DLC were all set up by El Invisible so he could hack the CIA's servers and disclose all their dirty laundry over the internet. It's strongly implied he did this as revenge for a loved one, "Rosebud", who was an innocent bystander killed during a CIA operation. The CIA, in turn, hunt him down and execute him as revenge for screwing with them.]]
* TreacherousQuestGiver: [[spoiler: The real El Invisible turns out to be Mr. Sonrisa, the informant who's been helping you throughout the DLC. He was manipulating you all along.]]

!! Eddie Escovado
The leader of the "Los Kamikazes" gang, a boisterous, adrenaline-addicted playboy and social media star.

* AffablyEvil: Eddie's very friendly towards you throughout your time working for him, although sometimes obnoxiously so. Even when you turn on him at the end, he only remarks that your behavior is "kinda rando" but still compliments your bravado.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: When he learns that he is about to be captured by the CIA mid-skydive, he opts to film himself taking off his parachute backpack and free falling to death, claiming it to be "immortalization".]]
* FlippingTheBird: Does this with both hands to the Ghost [[spoiler: while free falling to his death]].
* HookersAndBlow: Is a fan of both, stating his fondness for the former when introducing himself.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Although nominally a gang leader, Eddie never actually seems to actually take part in any of Santa Blanca's criminal activities, instead spending all his time partying. He ''buys'' plenty of drugs for his parties, but doesn't seem to be involved in the actual drug business.
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: After his suicide, he is found dead on his private beach face down, with his butt protruding upwards ''a la'' Johnny Sasaki despite slamming into the sand at terminal velocity.]]
* TheStoner: Is obviously high whenever you meet him, even in the middle of an UNIDAD ambush.
* SlaveToPR: ''Everything'' he does is for the sake of increasing his social media views. [[spoiler: Even his suicide.]]
* TalkativeLoon: Incessantly attempts to make [[OrphanedPunchline bizarre]] [[TooMuchInformation conversations]] with the Ghost [[spoiler: while being driven away from an UNIDAD ambush]].

!! Arturo Rey

The leader of the "Death Riders" motorcycle gang and a fanatical believer in Santa Muerte.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: After he fails to kill the Ghost, he sets himself on fire and rides off on his motorcycle to his death.]]
* BlingBlingBang: He fights with a gold-plated Desert Eagle during the UNIDAD raid against his HQ in one of the missions where you work for him.
* CoolBike: Owns one with an exhaust system that makes the rear wheel appear to be engulfed in flames.
* Cult: His motorcycle gang doubles as one for Santa Muerte.
* CutsceneBoss: While all the ''Narco Road'' bosses are disposed of in cutscenes, Rey's the only one who actually fights the Ghost, [[spoiler: getting into a short melee duel with the Ghost before taking a scythe to the shoulder and deciding to set himself on fire and ride off into the sunset.]]
* HellSeeker: By the time the Ghost meets him, he is convinced that Santa Muerte wishes for him to personally serve her in hell. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for those around him, he's looking for servants for himself in hell as well.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler: Attempts to get servants in hell by blowing up hundreds of civilians and later trying to kill the Ghost. He fails both times due to the Ghost.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: How he ultimately dies.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler: Is remarkably unfazed by having a scythe lodged in his arm by the Ghost.]]
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: [[spoiler: Once his gang members discover his HumanSacrifice plot, they take the side of the Ghost over him, opening up an opportunity for the Ghost to take him down. In fact he had so much trouble getting enough Santa Blanca members to agree to his crazy mass murder scheme that he ends up having to hire Los Sin Almas gang members instead to carry out his plan.]]

!! Tonio Mateos
The loud and obnoxious leader of the "Crazy Riders" muscle car gang, who speaks exclusively in hip hop rhythm.

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Suffers this when the Ghost shoots him while he's piloting a plane.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Comes with his mode of speaking.
* HairTriggerTemper: Is constantly threatening the Ghost even while they're getting work done for him.
* JerkAss: While the DLC's other two gang leaders are both AffablyEvil towards you, Tonio insults and belittles you throughout your entire time working for him. Once you finally seem to earn his respect, it literally takes him less than half a minute to decide you're a threat to his power and challenge you to a showdown.
* JiveTurkey: Always speaks like he is rapping.
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Doesn't get to finish describing what he intends to do to the Ghost when he gets shot.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Fallen Ghosts]]

!! Los Extranjeros

A South American [=PMC=] composed of elite soldiers from across Latin America. They were hired by UNIDAD to help them purge Bolivia of CIA influence, however they took the opportunity to take over the cocaine production infrastructure left over after the downfall of Santa Blanca.

* AnimalMotifs: Their logo consists of a roaring jaguar in front of a combat knife and a silhouette of South America and their combat uniform camouflage consists of yellow, black and gray spots, dots, camo stripes and solid colors.
* ContinuityNod: Los Extranjeros are a Latin-American [=PMC=] utilizing gear and deploying soldiers who are on a similar level to the Ghosts, which is similar to the unnamed group of Latin-American mercenaries encountered towards the end of ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2''. They also use troops that have mobile jammers that inflict InterfaceScrew on your HUD, which is similar to the mobile jammers in both ''Advanced Warfighter'' games and the jamming effect in the ''Future Soldier'' mission "Ember Hunt". Finally, they have troops that use [[InvisibilityCloak active camouflage]] like the Ghosts and Bodark do in ''Future Soldier''.
* EliteMooks: The Los Extranjeros are to UNIDAD what UNIDAD are to Santa Blanca. They also have a number of specialist units, including elite snipers and drone jammer troops. Also, their Covert Ops and Armored units are likely the most dangerous infantry units in the entire game.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Los Extranjeros" translates to "The Foreigners", a fitting if enigmatic title given they're an international [=PMC=].
* InvisibilityCloak: One class of Los Extranjeros utilizes active camouflage like the Ghosts themselves do in ''Ghost Recon: Future Soldier''. They have no presence on the mini-map when cloaked either and can only be seen through thermal vision.
* OneHitKill: Both their Elite Snipers and Covert Ops units can take you down to 1% health in one shot on normal difficulty and straight up kill you in one shot on the higher difficulties.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: They were hired by the Bolivian government to reinforce UNIDAD and to eliminate or subdue the remnants of the Kataris 26, the Santa Blanca cartel and to kill any CIA agents in the country.
* PsychoForHire: The Los Extranjeros commanders, natch. One is using slave labor to restart Bolivia's cocaine production, another is persecuting Bolivia's Christian population and a third is having Santa Blanca mooks fight to the death for his entertainment.

!! Colonel Juan Ignacio Merlo
The commander of Los Extranjeros and the main antagonist of the DLC.

* BigBad: As the leader of the Los Extranjeros, he's this for the ''Fallen Ghosts'' DLC.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Fallen Ghosts'', as well as of the ''Ghost Recon Wildlands'' story as a whole.
* FlatCharacter: Merlo only has one or two lines of dialogue and you learn very little about him or his personality other than him being the leader of Los Extrajneros, a former war criminal of South America's many brushfire conflicts, and the game's final assassination target.
* FlunkyBoss: Colonel Merlo's a pretty standard opponent (he doesn't even have boss-level health and dies in just a couple shots), but you'll have to fight your way through an army of UNIDAD and Los Extranjeros troops including a fair share of EliteMooks to get to him.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Downplayed, he does fight back but with just a handgun and he is not even behind cover once you kick on the door. Even his lowly mooks give you a lot more trouble than he do. Nothing compared to his lieutenants who give you a hell of a fight.

!! Major Luis Rocha, "El Espectro"

A leader of Los Extranejeros and in charge of rebuilding the cocaine trade.

* ColdSniper: Being a Covert Ops specialist, he even has the reputation. Most of his men also never had ever seen him in person.
* DirtyCoward: When you finally come after him, he runs off and you have to chase after him, eventually cornering him on top of a mountain. Since he's a Covert Ops unit equipped with a cloaking device, hunting him down is more complicated than usual.
* FlatCharacter: He don't have any speaking line unlike the other.
* KingMook: Of the Covert Ops
* ManipulativeBastard: He stands out from the others that he does the least KickTheDog of the three, mostly 'just' slave labor instead of pointless killing. But he performs well in it, the drug trafficking is back on business. He also operates from the shadows, both literally and figuratively.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Captain Ortega; Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine, while Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Downplayed; Rocha is mostly known for using slave labor to restore Santa Blanca's cocaine infrastructure, but it's not dwelled on as much as Captain Cruzar's massacre of Bolivian Christians.


!! Captain Tomas Ortega, "El Oso"

A leader of the Los Extranjeros and the one in charge of eliminating Santa Blanca's remnants.
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* BadBoss: When you encounter one of the kill list board, you can see in addition to killing civilians, he sometimes kill his own men who isn't up to his standards.
* BloodKnight: The main reason he loves his GladiatorGames. When the Ghosts mess up his operations big time, he just couldn't resist and challenges the Ghosts personally through the radio.
* BossBanter: Once you got his attention, he starts taunting the Ghosts through the radio.
* DuelBoss: You can't call your rebel backup during his boss fight. The gladiator area even take place in a forest area where it is almost impossible to bring a vehicle in.
* GladiatorGames: He runs a gladiatorial arena where former Santa Blanca sicarios fight each other to the death, in order to select out potential recruits for Los Extranjeros. To assassinate him, you're forced into the arena where you have to fight off waves of sicarios until Ortega and his squad finally show themselves.
* HeavilyArmoredMook: He's an Armored unit and therefore can only be killed with several headshots.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He keeps a kill count on how many rebels he and his men has killed.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: One of the Ghosts point out that many of his targets are ex-Santa Blanca, and that at least he is doing one thing right.
* KingMook: He is one to the Armored Los Extranjeros.
* RedOniBlueOni: With Major Rocha; Ortega is known as a sadistic, raging beast, while Rocha is described as a cold, ruthless machine.
* TheSpartanWay: His GladiatorGames are his way of obtaining the best possible recruits for Los Extranjeros
* WolfPackBoss: He's an Armored unit that fights you alongside a handful of other Armored units as well as a Drone Jammer.

!! Captain Dante Cruzar, "O Diabo"

A murderous psychopath who is committing crimes against the Bolivian Christian population for no reason.
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* AxCrazy: The main reason he got fired from his previous job, he is just too bloodthirsty.
* CrushingThePopulace: In contrast to Santa Blanca's VillainWithGoodPublicity campaign, Cruzar uses pure terror tactics to ensure submission, massacring entire villages and desecrating holy sites to intimidate the populace into believing that Los Extranjeros are unkillable demons.
* DoomTroops: His specialty, while Los Extranjeros already look scary enough, he is the one who makes use of this to spread terror and make the people too afraid to fight back.
* ForTheEvulz: Seemingly the only reason he does anything he does.
* HollywoodAtheist: He's targeting the Bolivian Christians in the region on the simple basis that they are religious, and is doing everything from engaging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing to the destruction of religious icons. When confronted by the Ghosts, he taunts them by drawing them to a church where he's slaughtered several civilians, sarcastically mocking their belief in "God's protection" and declares that no man or God can judge him.
* KingMook: He one is to the Footman Extranjeros.
* ShroudedInMyth: Many people believe he and his men are unkillable, also why he is nicknamed "O Diabo" (The Devil).
* TheDreaded: While Rocha and Ortega are feared by the people in their own ways, they are both pale compared to Cruzar. He also [[KickTheDog kicked the dog]] a lot more than both of them combined, like pointlessly massacring a whole village just to make a point to the Ghosts.
* WolfpackBoss: Unlike Major Rocha or Captain Ortega, Captain Cruzar is a standard infantry unit (though he does have somewhat enhanced health), but he's accompanied by a ''massive'' death squad made up of EliteMooks that assault your position after leading you into an ambush. A really massive one at that which include armed vehicles support in a place with little cover.

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[[folder: Other Characters]]
!! The Predator

The titular extraterrestrial hunter from the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise. The Predator's depiction in ''Wildlands'' is primarily based on [[Film/{{Predator}} the first film in the series]]. It appears his spaceship has crash-landed in Bolivia and he's been taking advantage of the regional chaos to hunt combatants from all sides in the conflict.
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[[folder:The Ghosts]]

An elite spec-ops team of four operatives sent to Bolivia after the Santa Blanca's bombing of the U.S. Embassy and murder of the DEA undercover agent to dismantle and destroy the cartel.

!Tropes fitting the entire squad

* {{Antihero}}: The squadron is here to destabilize the Santa Blanca cartel and get revenge for its attack on a US embassy as well as the murder of a DEA agent. They are not here to fight the War on Drugs or liberate the populace and are fully aware that their intervention will make situation worse for civilian population. They also perform actions breaking Geneva Conventions and some of Squad plans go straight into {{Magnificentbastard}}territory
* ArmorIsUseless: If you want you can equip your Ghost with a ballistic helmet and vest, but you're no more protected than a Ghost wearing a baseball cap and t-shirt. Armor is strictly cosmetic.
* CombatPragmatist: The Ghosts have absolutely no intention of playing fair with Santa Blanca, and so they pull out every dirty trick you can think of including those that can get them court-martialed on the spot once the mission is over. Using the night so they can kill enemies in their sleep is one of the milder examples and something even the LoadingScreen advises you to do. Some of their tactics for getting to certain buchons are devious enough to surprise even Bowman. Nomad can be observed kicking enemies in the crotch in the melee takedown animation.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: As in ''Future Soldier'', it's actually in the player's favor. The AI Ghosts can't be spotted by enemies even if they're running full-tilt right in their line of sight, can magically teleport to keep up with the player if they get too far away (including straight into the player's vehicle if there's open seats) and will immediately respawn if they stay downed too long. In addition, they'll have pinpoint accuracy if they're riding in any vehicle, ground-based or airborne, allowing you to turn choppers into an aim-botting juggernaut. What really gives them an edge over RealLife team members is their ability to sync-shoot targets from ''anywhere'' regardless of line of sight, thus enabling attack vectors that no human team could pull off.
* DeadpanSnarker: All four operatives are prone to cracking sarcastic jokes aimed at the situation during random roadtrip conversations.
* DialogDuringGameplay: The Ghosts will talk with each other while traveling from place to place on topics ranging from discussing the mission at hand to sharing jokes.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: You and your team are the best of the best, putting the scarcely armed rebels and even the nationwide cartel thugs to shame.
* FireForgedFriends: With Bowman. After [[spoiler:Pac Katari betrays them]], Holt says he'll burn down all of Bolivia if Bowman has been hurt, while admitting it's not something he'd normally say regarding a CIA officer.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Due to the mixed history between the United States and South America going back more than 200 years, all the locals including the Ghosts' own Rebel allies are heavily distrustful of them due to them being American agents.
* GoodIsNotNice: The Ghosts are an extrajudicial wetworks team inserted illegally into Bolivia with the purpose of killing hundreds of cartel members in order to punish Santa Blanca. They engage in everything from blackmail to kidnapping to even massacres of civilian targets. They are, however, fighting against some very bad people and .
** GoodIsNotSoft: Pleas for compassion from the various sicarios go unheeded.
* HopeBringer: Addressed during missions such as stopping child slavery; the people of Bolivia cannot go to the cops, they cannot get action, nothing would be done and they only open themselves up to be targeted by the cartel. The Ghosts and their brutal methods to stop such atrocities is exactly what they had been hoping for, according to Nomad and the team.
** HeroWithBadPublicity: They want to be heroes with ''no'' publicity and it's implied that they've aligned with Pac Katari in part so that all of the killings they've done can be attributed to the rebels instead. Ironically, it ends up backfiring in a big way as the above seriously irks the rebel leadership while neither UNIDAD or the cartel are fooled for very long. Unfortunately, these are the three groups they need to believe they are non-existent.
* InterserviceRivalry: The Ghosts, being members of the United States Army, crack plenty of jokes at the expense of the other service branches of the U.S. military and the various intelligence agencies, such as commenting that a medal handed out by the cartel looks like something you'd get from a box of cereal or the Air Force.
* MoralDissonance: When the Ghosts steal El Chido's CoolCar, one of them complains about this mission being "next-level shit." He's much more comfortable with kidnapping people instead.
** While they're generally disgusted by the cartel and their operatives, Nomad has a SympathyForTheDevil perspective on the Special Forces of other nations which choose to work for the cartels.
* OffscreenTeleportation: If you're unable to fit all four into a vehicle, the remaining squad will instantly show up wherever you drop off.
* SeinfeldianConversation: When you're on the road, the Ghosts will often talk about mundane things in a humorously serious manner, including food, sports, trying to download something, and so on; along with the current state of their mission and the activities of those around them.
* SupportingProtagonist: Since you play as a team of custom-generated characters, the main narrative of the game instead focuses on Agent Karen Bowman of the CIA, your primary field contact in Bolivia.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: At least initially, Pac Katari's rebels are really not happy about working with the Yanquis. This attitude will quickly fade if Kingslayer makes a point of bolstering the rebels through material and logistical means. [[spoiler: At least until the final mission, when the rebels believe they no longer need the Ghosts and betray them.]]
* UnflinchingWalk: AI Ghosts are FriendlyFireProof and don't care one bit about any explosives the player has set. It makes for some pretty cool scenes when Nomad blows up a warehouse full of coke while their squad is casually strolling out of the exploding building without looking back.
* UniversalDriversLicense: From bikes to light aircraft, if the Ghosts can find it, they can use it to travel across Bolivia.

!Nomad
->"''It's not enough to take out the Cartel, we have to send a message. [[GoodIsNotSoft The Santa Blanca is going down in flames.]]''"

'''Canonical Name:''' Anthony "Tony" Perryman

'''Age:''' 36

'''Rank:''' Major

'''Role:''' Team Leader/Support Gunner

Leader of the Ghost team sent to Bolivia and the PlayerCharacter. A major in the US Army, he was trained to leverage the expertise of each member of his squad for success. Nomad was deployed to Bolivia at the age of 36. He speaks fluent Spanish and is an expert in communications, as well as psychological and unconventional warfare. All of his perks come in particularly handy in his missions.

Born in Boston, Nomad was a military brat who spent his childhood moving from base to base. At the age of 18, he decided to enlist and became a member of Delta Force before the age of 24. After spending three tours with the counter-terrorist unit Task Force 88, he was then selected to become a Ghost thanks to his impressive feats. Nomad took part in many top secret operations all over the world, but it was only two years ago that he was promoted Ghost team leader.

Nomad remains completely calm, even under great pressure. He is the epitome of the strong, silent type, able to repress his emotions and to remain completely objective under every circumstance. Past teammates would joke about checking his pulse during parachute jumps to make sure he was alive.

During his initial briefing, Nomad saw surveillance footage of El Sueño executing the family of a Bolivian police officer. Stating that this footage has haunted him ever since, he made a vow to do everything he could to stop El Sueño.

Though Nomad's gender and appearance is fully customizable, this goes according to the official profile given by Ubisoft.

* ActionDad[=/=]ActionMom: Nomad will briefly mention having a kid during the introductory chopper ride.
* {{Antivillain}}: Clarifies at the beginning of the game that they are here on a revenge mission, not to be heroes.
* BadassBeard: Official depictions of the character by Ubisoft show him having a rather impressive beard.
* BeingPersonalIsntProfessional: Not with the team, but with the environment. Nomad sees Operation Kingslayer as a revenge mission, and hopes to stay out of Bolivia's local squabbles as much as possible.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Nomad and Weaver are rather similar in personalities: practical, intelligent, and efficient. As such, the two easily bond.
* ClusterFBomb: Nomad swears like [[Literature/RogueWarrior Dick Marcinko]] or maybe [[Series/GameOfThrones Arya Stark,]] lending credence to s/he being...
* DullSurprise: The female Nomad is remarkably flat in their voice acting. It actually fits with the character, however.
* GlassCannon: The game tries to treat combat as realistically as possible, so while Nomad can mow down armies and lay waste to an entire country with the right tactics, they can't take more than a handful of hits in return. Maxing out the Bullet Resistance skill decreases the damage taken by 30%, which still won't save you if you screw up and end up caught in a crossfire. It's made worse by the game's total lack of body armor for the protagonists.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Nomad has the full trust of the squad. But look at the above quote, and tell us that sounds like someone merciful.
* HyperspaceArsenal: If there's another explanation for where Nomad keeps about a hundred guns, thousands of bullets, a teenager's weight in explosive ordnance and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of remote-controlled drones, it's never brought up in-game.
* TheLeader: Even before the events of ''Wildlands'', Nomad previously led many operations. In fact, it was only two years ago he finally became a Ghost leader.
* MajorlyAwesome: Nomad holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army.
* MilitaryBrat: Described as one, having spent childhood moving from base to base before enlisting at the age of 18 and become a Delta Force member at 24.
* NervesOfSteel: Always remains completely calm, to the point where past teammates are reported to have joked about checking Nomad's pulse after helo-jumps to make sure he's actually alive.
* NotSoDifferent: While shutting down Santa Blanca training camps staffed by former special forces soldiers, a discussion between the Ghosts ensues, with your teammates shocked that men trained to such a high standard would be capable of joining a bunch of criminal scumbags like Santa Blanca and find the notion that any of them could work for guys like that incomprehensible. Nomad then points out that when they retire, all they have to look forward to is instructing the guys that will replace them, talking about how it used to be and ''maybe'' taking security work for the private sector. Working for Santa Blanca gives these former soldiers a chance to do the one thing they're good at again.
--> '''Nomad''': Fighters fight, gelders graze. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Which are you?]]
* {{Omniglot}}: Nomad's fluent in Spanish, which will help a lot in Bolivia.
* OneManArmy: If you're a completionist, play the game solo and prefer to get shit done yourself instead of relying on your AI buddies, you can easily rack up 10,000+ kills in a single playthrough.
* ParentsAsPeople: Nomad laments that his kid doesn't seem to have lot respect, though keeping an elite military occupation a secret probably plays a role in that.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: If you're playing single-player as a female, you'll be the only woman on the team.
* StatuesqueStunner: A female Nomad is the same height as a male Nomad or the rest of the Ghosts, standing about 6 feet tall. This is especially noticeable when she's standing next to the native Bolivian women, who are a much more average 5 and a half feet tall.
* UngratefulBastard: One of the lines Nomad can spit out after being revived by a teammate is a very reproachful "what took you so long?", even if their buddies had to shoot their way through a hostile army just to reach them before they bleed out.
* VirtualPaperDoll: Being the PlayerCharacter, Their appearance fully customizable including sex, race, hair and clothing. This leads to some GameplayAndStorySegregation as a character wearing a full ghillie suit gets spotted as easily as one wearing bright white clothes and a character wearing full body armor takes as much damage as one wearing a t-shirt.
* WalkingArmory: Although Nomad has only three active weapon slots (two long arms and a handgun), they carry their entire arsenal with them at all times, which means that by the end of the game your player character is lugging around about a hundred guns in their backpack, many of which are [[{{BFG}} pretty damn huge]]. It's topped off with a wide array of grenades and other explosives of which they can carry quite a few per type.
* WeaponOfChoice: In the cutscenes, Nomad uses a stock M9 pistol and an [=ACR=] rifle with [=EXP3=] holographic sight, extended buttstock, and extended magazine. Promotional material and the cover art meanwhile sees him use a Knight's Armament Company LMG [=A1=] with a sling, foregrip and [=EXP3=] holographic sight with a [=3x=] magnifier.

!Holt
->"''If I die, burn my hard drive. Just burn it, drop it in the ocean, and bury it under a rock at the bottom of the sea. Just get rid of that shit. [[NoodleIncident And don't even think about looking at what's on it.]]''"

'''Canonical Name:''' Dom Moretta

'''Age:''' 33

'''Rank:''' Sergeant 1st Class

'''Role:''' Engineer

The Ghost team’s technology specialist. An expert in intel and data decryption, he is also an excellent drone pilot.

Born in Louisiana, Holt grew up in a family with a long history of service. He wanted to continue that legacy and make his career in the military since the age of 4. At the age of 18, he joined the army and became a sapper in the Rangers before the age of 21. Holt has always been obsessed with technology and developed a passion for engineering. This was one of the reasons he was selected to become a Ghost at the early age of 27.

Holt is not only a professional, top-tier operator in combat, he’s also a joker at heart. He uses his humor to keep the situation under control during tense moments. When not on mission, Holt tends to get rowdy. He is known for drunkenly pushing a joke too far and getting into regular barfights. He would do anything to get his adrenaline fix. After working on several missions together, Holt quickly became Midas’ best friend. He often drags him into disturbing situations, ones that never fail to create memorable stories.

Holt has seen the effect of drugs firsthand. He came from a community that was overrun with oxycodone and other illicit substances. Many of his friends and family either died or went to prison due to drugs. For him, his mission is all about stopping that from happening to even more neighborhoods.

* AllergicToRoutine: Dislikes it when things are too much like clockwork, so to him, the occasional barfight simply livens things up.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Often brings up humorous conversation topics when you're on the road, such as trying to download a recent sports match. In the intro cutscene, he talks about arriving in Bolivia on a bus while piss-drunk. This was far from an impulse; he was using his drunkenness to also help keep people along the way from trying to pry into his understandably top-secret business.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Implied to be this, given that he complains about Nomad not letting him drive anymore because of that [[NoodleIncidents one time]].
* TheEngineer: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's right there in his file.]] Holt's the more tech-savvy member of the team, [[SkewedPriorities even trying to download a sports match in the meantime]].
* FreudianExcuse: Holt's childhood of people dying or being imprisoned due to drug use fuels his motivation to bring down the Santa Blanca.
* NoodleIncident: Driving vehicles has him say how he's never allowed to drive because of that one time.
* OddFriendship: He and Midas are as different as it gets, yet maintained a strong bond for at least ten years.
* PermaStubble: Always has a 5 o'clock shadow.

!Midas
->"''Sueno should be wary. [[BadassBoast The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have arrived]].''"

'''Canonical Name:''' Rubio Delgado

'''Age:''' 31

'''Rank:''' Sergeant 1st Class

'''Role:''' Assault

If things go wrong and you are caught in crossfire, Sergeant 1st Class Midas is the partner you want by your side. He’s not only a skilled mechanic and a vehicles specialist, he’s equipped with some seriously heavy weaponry, making him the perfect choice for intense assaults.

Born in San Diego, California, Rubio Delgado grew up in a religious family. He has strong Latin-American roots, as his father was originally from Honduras and his mother was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Rubio almost became a priest, but he decided to leave the seminary and join the army, where he became a Ranger specializing in Military Intelligence. His deep knowledge of Latin America helped him during operations in Colombia, Peru, and El Salvador. His career achievements led to his position with the Ghosts at age 29.

Loud, boisterous, and aggressive, Midas is in a constant state of unrest. His deep religious roots make him the most emotional member of the team; he tends to care a little bit too much about everything. He feels like he’s being driven by a higher power, and regularly attends church and gives spiritual counseling to fellow soldiers. He’s happily married with four kids and he’s been Holt’s best friend for ten years.

Midas is an expert in Latin American politics and culture, which gives him a unique insight into the drug trafficking of the region.

* ActionDad: More so than Nomad, having four kids.
* BadassPreacher: He almost became a priest before joining the army and becoming a Ranger, and regularly gives spiritual counsel to soldiers in church.
* BoisterousBruiser: Doubling as the team's Assault specialist, Midas is more than content should things go loud.
* CoolMask: He wears a scarf over his lower face, adding to his aggressive look.
* OddFriendship: He and Holt are as different as it gets, yet maintained a strong bond for at least ten years.
* HappilyMarried: In contrast to everyone else, Midas maintains a peaceful marriage.
* ReligiousBruiser: He's not only an effective soldier, but also a deeply religious man. Midas can't shake the feeling that something is driving his along the path he walks.
* SouthOfTheBorder: His mother is from Mexico and his father, Honduras. Midas' roots in Latin-America gives him a greater and more personal connection with Bolivia, adding to his motivations.

!Weaver
->"''[[YouKnowWhatTheySay You know the old saying]]: When life gives you supply planes, you take those and give them to your rebel friends.''"

'''Canonical Name:''' Corey Ward

'''Age:''' 34

'''Rank:''' Master Sergeant

'''Role:''' Sniper

Master Sergeant Coray Ward, also known as Weaver, is a scholar armed with a sniper rifle. He takes down enemies silently and efficiently, never giving away his position. They say a single bullet can turn a battle around, and Weaver knows it far too well.

Coray Ward was born 34 years ago in Trenton, New Jersey. He excelled in his studies from an early age and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton before joining the Navy. He was accepted into DEVGRU and during this time he mastered his impressive aiming skills, serving multiple tours as a combat sniper. Weaver received numerous medals and accolades for various missions, including one for a confirmed 2,210-meter sniper kill. He became a Ghost at 30.

Due to his higher education, Weaver acts and talks like a professor, though he tries to downplay his sophistication and doesn’t like to stand out. Conservative in his beliefs but libertarian at heart, he avoids talking politics with his teammates. He’s currently undergoing a difficult divorce, and counsels veterans suffering from PTSD when he’s not deployed. He has a strong friendship with Nomad, making him the first person selected for the team.

Weaver considers the Cartel to be a terrorist group and believes stopping them is a matter of national security.

* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Nomad are rather similar in personalities: practical, intelligent, and efficient. As such, the two easily bond.
* BlackAndNerdy: The only black member on the team (unless you make yourself black), and the most well-studied member.
* ColdSniper: He's the team's primary sniper, and he doesn't waste time making good work. His longest recorded kill was 2,210 meters[[labelnote:*]]1.37 miles[[/labelnote]] away.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: He's currently going through a nasty divorce.
* GeniusBruiser: Weaver's got a large formal education under his belt, and a high-powered rifle in his hands.
* GogglesDoNothing: Wears a pair over his eyes, which was interestingly never shown in official depictions.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a rather long scar going from his hairline, over his right eye (so his eye's still intact), down to his right cheek.
* MartialMedic: Thanks to his education, he helps counsel military vets suffering from PTSD when he's not on duty.
* {{Omniglot}}: Fluent in two other languages as well.

[[folder:Other US personnel]]
!Karen Bowman

A CIA officer posing as an aid worker. Provides intel support for the Ghosts.

* {{Antihero}}: To a much-much greater extent than Nomad. Karen is willing to do anything and everything necessary to stop the cartel.
* BreakThemByTalking: Karen uses a mixture of threats of torture(which she has no problem to follow throught with) and appeals to get her prisoners to speak, sparing no details about what horrible fates await them or those they love if they refuse to co-operate. It usually works.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's snarky, loves music extolling the virtues of drug smugglers in spite of spending her career fighting them and apparently [[NoodleIncident once snorted Italian roast.]] She's also a very good intel officer and a frighteningly efficient interrogator.
* ClusterFBomb: Bowman drops F-bombs in every other sentence, but when she's told that [[spoiler:El Sueno has been granted full immunity at the climax of the final story mission]], her next lines consist of nothing but her screaming "fuck", "fuck you" and some other choice words at the top of her voice.
* DeadpanSnarker: Her mission briefings have their fair share of snark.
* {{Expy}}: A snarky blonde woman in a covert business dressed in blue with surprising taste in music that is the player’s jerkass handler. She’s Ubisoft’s answer to Kirsten Geary from VideoGame/TheSecretWorld. They even make some of the same jokes.
* [[FanBoy Fangirl]]: Rather surprisingly, Karen is a big fan of narcocorrido music, telling the Ghosts that if they don't like it, "you're pussies and you're off my Christmas list."
* FemaleMisogynist: Karen has most of her her KickTheDog moments primarily aimed at women who don't deserve it. She also threatens PrisonRape and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
* KickTheDog: Karen has a number of these which go beyond PayEvilUntoEvil.
** Her treatment of La Gringa, threatening PrisonRape and worse seems particularly egregious and unnecessary compared to the way she treats other prisoners.
** She threatens to leave Gabrielle Garcia-Taylor to be killed by the cartel unless she shares intel about the cartels she may not actually have.
* ItsPersonal: Ricky Sandoval was her friend, and so she wants revenge on the Santa Blanca cartel, especially the ones who actually killed him.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: She threatens to do this to some of the prisoners captured by the Ghosts, such as [[{{Fingore}} cutting off their fingers with pliers]], [[KillItWithFire using a blowtorch]] [[FacialHorror to burn their face off]], or ordering Nomad [[BoomHeadshot to shoot them in the head since they refuse to talk]].
* {{Jerkass}}: She's not exactly the nicest of people. This especially prominent in her dealing with La Gringa, when Bowman is outright gloating about how much PrisonRape she has to look forward to.
* KickTheDog: Her handling of El Gringa is noticeably nastier than other characters despite the latter's {{Antivillain}} status.
* LaserGuidedKarma: She spends a good deal of the game interrogating prisoners in extreme matter and reveling in it, while in the bad ending [[spoiler:she gets sent to prison for executing El Sueno.]]
* MissionControl: Analyses intel and gives the Ghosts their objectives.
* Revengebeforereason: [[spoiler: She does this in the bad ending, killing El Sueno despite orders to take him into custody with full immunity, knowing full well it would earn her a murder charge because she's obsessed with vengeance.]]
* {{Squee}}: She's a huge El Chido {{Fangirl}}, so when the Ghosts finally drag him through her door, her usually businesslike demeanor drops in an instant and she starts fawning all over him. Once the meeting is over and the Ghosts have left the building, her post-mission radio chat actually begins with an overjoyed cheer and the confession that the Ghosts "made her a very happy woman".
* TakeThat: She describes [[AxCrazy La Plaga]] as the meanest motherfucker on the internet...
--> '''Bowman''': And yes, I've been on [[Website/FourChan 4Chan]].

!Ricardo "Ricky" Sandoval

An undercover DEA agent in the Santa Blanca cartel. His death and the means the Santa Blanca cartel used to accomplish it are the reasons why the Ghosts are being sent to Bolivia.

* BecomingTheMask: Quite a few of the Kingslayer files that contain his mission updates to Bowman have him voice his concerns that he's sliding too deep into Santa Blanca's affairs, and he admits that he needs to remind himself increasingly often that he's one of the good guys.
* TheExtremistWasRight: [[spoiler: The only way to end Santa Blanca's control over Bolivia was the Ghosts. Whether it was worth the cost is up for debate.]]
* EvilPaysBetter: He mentions in his reports to Bowman that the cartel recently paid him over two million dollars for a single coke shipment he oversaw as part of his cover identity - a fact that gets him thinking when he compares that to the meagre DEA pension benefits he can look forward to.
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler: Is responsible for one that blames Santa Blanca for the crime of attacking a US embassy.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo:
** As part of his undercover job, he's heavily involved in the cartel's smuggling operations and therefore personably responsible for several tons of cocaine hitting the US markets. The realization causes him to wonder if he's still doing the right thing or went too far already.
** Later, [[spoiler:in his confession to Sueño, Ricky admits that he perpetrated the embassy bombing because he felt that his superiors were ignoring the situation in Bolivia, and that the only way to get them to commit the resources necessary to stopping the cartel would be to have them upgraded to narco-terrorists instead of just drug traffickers.]]
* PlotTriggeringDeath: His being tortured and killed is what gets the Ghosts called into action.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After every cartel head but El Sueño has been taken down, you're tasked with locating the tape of Ricky's torture session, where he confesses to Sueño that he was the one who bombed the US embassy in La Paz, and that he acted alone, without the knowledge of the CIA or DEA, all to make the US serious about stopping the Santa Blanca Cartel.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Faked a terrorist attack on a US embassy to bring about US intervention.]]
* WorthyOpponent: He's fully aware that El Sueno is a murderous megalomaniacal nutjob, but he also respects him and even seems to be somewhat fond of him on a personal level.
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[[folder:Kataris 26]]

A mostly defeated communist resistance against the Bolivian government that is reluctantly allied with the Ghosts. [[spoiler: At least at first.]]

* {{Archenemy}}: El Commandante.
** La Cardinale is also the only cartel member who actively seems to care they exist.
* BackFromTheBrink: The Ghosts provide them enough war material and stolen money to become a serious threat to Santa Blanca as well as the Bolivian government as a whole.
** [[spoiler: Becomes AllForNothing as the death of Pac Katari as well as the Bolivian government hiring the Los Extranjeros results in them being crushed again.]]
* ChummyCommies: They become very friendly to the Americans once they start eliminating the bosses.
** [[spoiler: Becomes DirtyCommunists after they turn on you under Pac Katari's orders.]]
* EnemyMine: The rebels are willing to accept any help they can get against UNIDAD and Santa Blanca.
* {{Expy}}: One for M-19, which was a party in Columbia's war against Pablo Escobar.
* FiveFingerDiscount: The majority of their supplies come from the Ghosts stealing them from Santa Blanca and UNIDAD.
* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: They never explictly claim to be communists but their Che inspired uniform (available as an outfit) and leader's dialogue make it clear.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Were in a conflict with UNIDAD and the cartel well before the Ghosts were involved. It didn't work out for them.
* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist communist resistance is allied with a unit of American Special Forces.
* TheRemnant: They were defeated by El Commandante a year before the events of the game and are reduced to a handful of fighters under Pac Katari's control.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Their entire revolt more or less just amounts to a footnote in the Ghost's destruction of the Santa Blanca cartel.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: They seem to think they can take on El Sueno's forces themselves once he's discovered. [[spoiler: They're wrong.]]
* UngratefulBastard: A {{Downplayed}} trope example. They are very grateful and often sing your praises in ambient dialogue. [[spoiler: They also don't hesitate to turn on you at Pac Katari's orders.]]

!Pac Katari

Your primary liaison with the Kataris 26 rebels, providing additional intel on specific targets and operations of the Santa Blanca.