History Characters / GhostReconWildlandsUNIDADAndKataris26

* {{Expy}}: One for M-19, which was a left-wing party in Colombia's war against Pablo Escobar, although they weren't communists but militant socialists explicitly in favor of democracy. 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 and even had CIA agents operating among their ranks, but their leadership later dramatically turned against the US.]]

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

* 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.

* {{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 and even had CIA agents operating among their ranks, but their leadership later turned against their former backers.]]

* {{Expy}}: Curiously, despite being Bolivian he physically resembles infamous Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, particularly the mustache, head, and ChestOfMedals.

* {{Expy}}: They seem to be based off of a mixture of UTARC [[note]] Tactical Crisis Response Unit [[/note]], a secretive (now disbanded) Bolivian military police unit that was infamous for its brutality and wearing black ballistic masks, and UMOPAR, a DEA-backed counter-narcotics unit of the Bolivian national police responsible for dealing with drug dealers in rural areas[[note]]Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas, also infamous for its brutality and attempting to overthrow the government in 1988[[/note]]. They take some inspiration from BOPE, a special unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil[[note]]responsible for fighting drug cartels, terrorists, and other criminals in the favelas[[/note]], specifically UNIDAD's symbol, which features a knife stabbing down into a skull, which is famously the symbol of BOPE, as well as having their veterans wear black berets like BOPE personnel.

* {{Expy}}: They seem to be based off of a mixture of UTARC [[note]] Tactical Crisis Response Unit [[/note]], a (now disbanded) Bolivian military police unit that was infamous for its brutality and wearing black ballistic masks, and UMOPAR, a DEA-backed counter-narcotics unit of the Bolivian national police responsible for dealing with drug dealers in rural areas[[note]]Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas, also infamous for its brutality and attempting to overthrow the government in 1988[[/note]]. They take some inspiration from BOPE, a special unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil[[note]]responsible for fighting drug cartels, terrorists, and other criminals in the favelas[[/note]], specifically UNIDAD's symbol, which features a knife stabbing down into a skull, which is famously the symbol of BOPE, as well as having their veterans wear black berets like BOPE personnel.

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

* 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: This may be why Bowman mourns him as a good partner in the ending despite his betrayal.]]

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara, and he even has Che-style posters of his face plastered around Bolivian communities. The way El Sueño, DJ Perico, and El Cardenal describe Pac as well as Pac's own fiery speeches also bring to mind UsefulNotes/FidelCastro. [[spoiler: Like Castro, Pac works with the Americans but later suddenly turns on them.]]

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

* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist communist resistance movement is allied with a unit of American Special Forces. Nomad in particular is unusually friendly when chatting with rebel lieutenants, who salute him in return. [[spoiler: Even after they turn on the Ghosts, the Ghosts return to working with them against Los Extranjeros, and neither seems to have a problem with it.]]

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara, and he even has Che-style posters of his face plastered around Bolivian communities. The way El Sueño, DJ Perico, and El Cardenal describe Pac as well as Pac's own fiery speeches also bring to mind UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

* GeneralFailure: Zig-zagged. 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 in the bad ending that the entire resistance will now collapse into infighting.]]

** To the above about La Gringa. When Pac Katari has radio broadcasts when a Buchon is taken down it is normally gloating and and insults the courage of the Buchon in question. If that Buchon has been captured Pac Katari promises they will suffer revolutionary justice ''but not with La Gringa'' instead he says she has been captured by the rebels but then goes on to list all the good things she did before she joined Santa Blanca and even after she joined Santa Blanca how she helped the rebels, and he says she will be treated with compassion showing Pac Katari thinks it is unfair to judge her harshly - unlike Bowman who gleefully threatens la Gringa with prison rape.

* MilesGloriosus: He appears to be a random cocalero who decided to rename himself after Tupac Katari one day, even though all he shares in common is Tupac's surname (Apasa), and doesn't appear to be Aymara.

* GeneralRipper: Despite only being a Lientenant-Colonel, he was apparently the one commanding UNIDAD efforts in Media Luna. Whatever he did, it worked fast, and the words "civilian casualties" came up a lot...

* {{Irony}}: El Comandante is a name typically associated with the likes of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, but here it's used by a military officer crushing communist rebels.

* {{Expy}}: They seem to be based off of a mixture of UTARC [[note]] Tactical Crisis Response Unit [[/note]], a (now disbanded) Bolivian military police unit that was infamous for its brutality and wearing black ballistic masks, and UMOPAR, a DEA-backed counter-narcotics unit of the Bolivian national police responsible for dealing with drug dealers in rural areas[[note]]Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas, also infamous for its brutality[[/note]]. They take some inspiration from BOPE, a special unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil[[note]]responsible for fighting drug cartels, terrorists, and other criminals in the favelas[[/note]], specifically UNIDAD's symbol, which features a knife stabbing down into a skull, which is famously the symbol of BOPE, as well as having their veterans wear black berets like BOPE personnel.

* {{Expy}}: A lot of his dialogue brings to mind UsefulNotes/CheGuevara, and he even has Che-style posters of his face plastered around Bolivian communities. The way El Sueño and DJ Perico describe Pac, as well as Pac's own fiery speeches also bring to mind UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

* ConsummateProfessional: Zig-zagged. A colonel interviewed by DJ Perico is very insistent on maintaining his orderly and clean-cut image, and politely ignores DJ Perico's references to him partying with HookersAndBlow in his off hours. The ordinary enlisted in ''Narco Road'' are naturally revealed to be far more interested in indulging in cocaine and talking about officers' mistresses.

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: UNIDAD is a paramilitary organisation originally set up by the Bolivian government to combat drug cartels, but due to high levels of corruption inside it's ranks, it has become just an army of well-equipped thugs and bullies.

** [[spoiler: Becomes DirtyCommunists after they turn on you under Pac Katari's orders. However, they're strongly 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. The rebels only turn on the Ghosts in the final province, suggesting that those were die-hard Pac Katari loyalists rather than the majority of rebels.]]

* RealityEnsues: Built up as one of the biggest badasses among the antagonists, to the same level as Carl Bookhart and El Muro. [[spoiler: Much like Bookhart, however, he reacts to a squall of bullets to the torso like any other human.]]

The Bolivian military police that used to fight the cartel but have since made a tense truce with them.

* {{Expy}}: They seem to be based off of a mixture of UTARC, a (now disbanded) Bolivian military police unit that was infamous for its brutality and wearing black ballistic masks, and UMOPAR, a DEA-backed counter-narcotics unit of the Bolivian national police responsible for dealing with drug dealers in rural areas[[note]]Also infamous for its brutality[[/note]]. They take some inspiration from BOPE, a special unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil[[note]]responsible for fighting drug cartels, terrorists, and other criminals in the favelas[[/note]], specifically UNIDAD's symbol, which features a knife stabbing down into a skull, which is famously the symbol of BOPE, as well as having their veterans wear black berets like BOPE personnel.

* {{Expy}}: They seem to be based off of a mixture of the UTARC, a (now disbanded) Bolivian military police unit that was infamous for its brutality and wearing black ballistic masks, the UMOPAR, a counter-narcotics unit of the Bolivian national police responsible for dealing with drug dealers in rural areas[[note]]Also infamous for its brutality[[/note]], and BOPE, a special unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil[[note]]responsible for fighting drug cartels, terrorists, and other criminals in the favelas[[/note]], specifically UNIDAD's symbol, which features a knife stabbing down into a skull, which is famously the symbol of BOPE (and one of their mottos).

* OddFriendship: An anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist communist resistance movement is allied with a unit of American Special Forces. [[spoiler: Even after they turn on the Ghosts, the Ghosts return to working with them against Los Extranjeros, and neither seems to have a problem with it.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction to the Santa Blanca takeover of his country.

* 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 in the bad ending that the entire resistance will now collapse into infighting.]]

* 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: This may be one Bowman mourns him as a good partner in the ending despite his betrayal.]]

* FacelessGoons: Most UNIDAD soldiers wear face concealing balaclava.

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