History Characters / GhostReconWildlandsUNIDADAndKataris26

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara. The way El Sueño and DJ Perico describe Pac, as well as Pac's own fiery speeches, also bring to mind UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

** [[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, although they've managed to hold onto some old cartel outposts, especially in Caimenes. That said, the presence of rebel support in Fallen Ghosts regardless implies they're NotQuiteDead.]]

* 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. However, you can still summon them for help in Fallen Ghosts, are effectively working with them again, and even in the base game the rebels only turn on the Ghosts one time in the final province, suggesting that many are still grateful for the assistance.]]

* 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 distrusts the Ghosts and other Americans at first, and despite being more amicable later on, is still 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]].]]

* 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, and as rebels always spawn or appear on vehicle patrol if you upgrade them enough, he's great at mobilizing his forces to rapidly respond to situations. Finally, he's great at unifying the entire rebel movement, so [[spoiler: his death makes Bowman warn that the entire resistance will now collapse into infighting.]]

* 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. He also shows genuine warmth and praise for the Ghosts as they complete more and more sidequests to help his rebels.

* EnemyMine: The rebels are willing to accept any help they can get against UNIDAD and Santa Blanca. [[spoiler: And possibly Los Extranjeros as well.]]

* 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. The Ghosts are genuinely shocked and even hurt at his betrayal, and even attempt to talk him out of it, with no success.]]

* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist communist resistance movement is allied with a unit of American Special Forces.

* 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. However, you can still summon them for help in Fallen Ghosts, and the rebels only turn on the Ghosts in the final province, suggesting that many are still grateful for the assistance.]]

* {{Expy}}: One for M-19, which was a left-wing party in Colombia's war against Pablo Escobar, although they weren't communists but rather militant socialists. The '26' in their name also brings to mind the left-wing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement 26th of July Movement]] that led and won the Cuban Revolution. [[spoiler: The latter was given assistance by the CIA, but their leadership later turned against their former backers.]]

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara and to a lesser extent UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

* 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.]]

** 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. Or so he thought.]]

* 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, and as rebels always spawn or appear on vehicle patrol if you upgrade them enough, he's great at mobilizing his forces to rapidly respond to situations.

* 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.

** [[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. That said, the presence of rebel support in Fallen Ghosts regardless implies they're NotQuiteDead.]]

* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist communist resistance is allied with a unit of American Special Forces.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Their entire revolt more or less just amounts to a footnote in the Ghost's destruction of the Santa Blanca cartel. However, they can still be summoned in Fallen Ghosts, so perhaps they're just hiding.]]

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

* TheFaceless: He's never without his black ballistic mask, even wearing it in official military documentation papers. This may be a reference to the UTARC, one of the units UNIDAD is believed to be based on, who were famous for wearing black ballistic masks.

* {{Archenemy}}: Is this to the rebels, having more or less defeated them by the time of the game.

* {{Archenemy}}: El Commandante.

** [[spoiler: Becomes DirtyCommunists after they turn on you under Pac Katari's orders. However, they're implied to have become chummy once again as rebel support can still be called in as of Fallen Ghosts, suggesting that they are thankful for all the help.]]
* 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 left-wing party in Colombia's war against Pablo Escobar, although they weren't communists but rather militant socialists. The '26' in their name also brings to mind the left-wing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement 26th of July Movement]] that led and won the Cuban Revolution.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: Their entire revolt more or less just amounts to a footnote in the Ghost's destruction of the Santa Blanca cartel.]]

* 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. However, you can still summon them for help in Fallen Ghosts.]]

** [[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.]]

** [[spoiler: Becomes DirtyCommunists after they turn on you under Pac Katari's orders.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and UsefulNotes/CheGuevara.

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara.

* ChummyCommies: They become very friendly to the Americans once they start eliminating the bosses.

* {{Expy}}: One for M-19, which was a party in Columbia's war against Pablo Escobar.

* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: They never explictly claim to be communists but their Che inspired uniform (available as an outfit) and leader's dialogue make it clear.

* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist communist resistance is allied with a unit of American Special Forces.

* 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]].]]

* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Named himself after famous South American indigenous anti-colonial revolutionary Tupac Katari.

* 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.

** 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.]]

* UnwantedRescue: A DownplayedTrope example but he isn't happy the Ghosts are the people to pick him up.

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

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* WeHardlyKnewYa: Only appears in the first mission and never makes another appearance. [[spoiler: Except as a corpse.]]

[[folder:Kataris 26]]
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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.]]