Amazonian War

The Amazonian War refers to a series of military conflicts and proxy wars that consumed Central and South America. They began with a series of murders and a terrorist attack in Bolivia, and then escalated with a military raid on Venezuela after it was discovered that Venezuela was involved in the violence in Bolivia. 
== Background ==
The infamous cartel known as Santa Blanca was founded by El Sueño, a dangerous sicario who had a dream-hence the name El Sueño-of creating a narco-state. To accomplish this, Sueño came to Bolivia from Mexico and formed the Santa Blanca Cartel in 2008. Their connection with key politicians ended up with them controlling most of Bolivia but before they got control, the cartel was at war with UNIDAD, a militarized police force, which engulfed the whole of Bolivia and in the end, the government had to sign a secret peace treaty with the cartel saying, "If you stop killing our people, we will look the other way", effectively taking over the country. This also led to UNIDAD being increasingly corrupt, with a large majority of UNIDAD making secret deals with various cartel lieutenants. In response to this, a resistance movement known as the Kataris 26, led by Pac Katari, was formed to fight the cartel and liberate Bolivia. 
Unfortunately for El Sueno, internal forces were threatening everything: multiple people in Santa Blanca had grown tired of El Sueno, seeing him as a tyrannical individual who merely saw the Bolivian people as a means to an end. Subsequently, many in Santa Blanca quietly plotted to mutiny against El Sueno, with one particular individual going so far as to covertly reach out to a mysterious mercenary organization for help in his rebellion. 
At around the same time, a notorious computer hacker codenamed "Matador" arrived in Bolivia. He had recently fled to London, England, where he joined a hacktivist organization called DedSec. By the time the cartel took over Bolivia, Matador was in-country as part of a "business trip" on DedSec's behalf. 
Concurrently, a former Norwegian military officer named Freya Helvig had been investigating a bush pilot named Boyer "Boston" Reed, an American pilot and playboy who was employed by Santa Blanca to smuggle drugs by airplane. With help from connections in Bolivia, she had discovered alarming evidence that Boston Reed had been running a "side operation" under the cartel's nose. 
Sometime after this, two young women, Ellie Cohen and her sister Ava Cohen, were kidnapped by Santa Blanca while touring Bolivia. 
== Events of the war ==
=== Deal gone bad ===
El Sueno appointed La Plaga, one of the major lieutenants in Santa Blanca's security division, to oversee a business deal made between Santa Blanca, the Russian Federation, and UNIDAD regarding nuclear weapons. Six weeks earlier, it was discovered that a Russian nationalist named Vladimir Makarov offered a deal to Santa Blanca and UNIDAD upon discovering that uranium was found in the Bolivian mines. Makarov offered to help Santa Blanca build nuclear weapons in exchange for letting Russia purchase the uranium. El Sueno and La Plaga in particular were intrigued by the offer and accepted. 
La Plaga was ordered to deliver a helicopter containing the uranium to a contact in Media Luna, but secretly, La Plaga coordinated with Keres Legion to assassinate the contact and steal the helicopter. After this was done, La Plaga handed the stolen chopper off to Keres Legion leader Deimos. Deimos in turn coordinated with fellow Santa Blanca deserter El Cerebro to bring the helicopter to Mexico. 
=== Ralph's war against Santa Blanca ===
Having learned of the kidnapping of Ellie and Ava Cohen, high school graduates and Ellie's close friends Ralph Rager, Aiden Pearce and Lester Hackett formed a plan to reach Bolivia and rescue the two girls. Upon arrival, they were joined by Turkish mercenaries led by a woman named "Huntress", who also wanted revenge against Santa Blanca for murdering her husband, and Ralph's friend Lester Hackett. 
After questioning some people of interest in various Bolivian villages, they tracked down Marcus Jensen, a scientist who was placed in charge of cocaine production. After destroying Marcus Jensen's supply of cocaine ingredients, they captured the man and attempted to question him about where Ellie and Ava were. He claimed that Ellie and Ava were investigating some kind of deal that Santa Blanca and UNIDAD made with Russia after the truce between Santa Blanca and the Bolivian government was made. Ralph didn't believe him, until Marcus implored with them to find a woman in Espiritu Santo province named La Santera, whom he insisted would corroborate his story. 
Ralph and his team did so, and sure enough La Santera did corroborate Marcus Jensen's story. Unfortunately she also told them that UNIDAD had sold Ellie and Ava to a cartel lieutenant named Madre Coca after arresting them on the orders of an UNIDAD officer named El Comandante. 
Enraged by this, Ralph and company went after El Comandante. They decided to trap El Comandante by framing him in a scheme to hijack Santa Blanca's cocaine production from the cartel. After breaking an SB lieutenant arrested by UNIDAD from prison, Ralph learned that El Comandante had Ellie and Ava arrested after they were investigating him in connection to a mysterious deal made between Russia and Santa Blanca involving nuclear weapons, during which El Comandante and UNIDAD were to act as mediators. Enraged by this information, Ralph talked the SB lieutenant into spreading misinformation accusing El Comandante of being a greedy man who couldn't be trusted to successfully handle the Russian nuclear material. The ruse worked and SB sent a hit team after El Comandante. Ralph and company tried to take advantage of the chaos and kill El Comandante, but he was gunned down by SB forces first. Ralph did manage to recover intel from his corpse, indicating that he had handed Ava and Ellie off to Madre Coca, a cartel lieutenant in Tabacal Province. 
Acting on this intel, Ralph and company tracked down and kidnapped Madre Coca's grandson, a man named Julio Salazar, to force Madre Coca into a confrontation. Madre Coca offered to trade Ellie and Ava for Julio, an offer Ralph was willing to accept. But Madre Coca backstabbed Ralph by setting up an ambush. In the ensuing shootout, Madre Coca was slain by Pac Katari's rebels serving as Ralph's bodyguards. 
Meanwhile, Aiden Pearce tried to pressure El Emisario into meeting with him and divulging what he knew about Ava and Ellie's kidnapping. His plan to force El Emisario into a confrontation involved destroying his drug production facilities. The plan abruptly backfired when El Emisario, rather than cave in and meet with Aiden, chose to commit suicide instead. Aiden did, however, find intel on El Emisario's body, indicating that El Emisario and another Santa Blanca lieutenant named El Wey had intel about Ellie and Ava's kidnapping. 
Ralph's next move was to target El Wey. After framing him for the assassination of an UNIDAD captain and destroying his businesses to force him into a confrontation, Ralph apprehended El Wey before UNIDAD could send in a hit team to assassinate El Wey for retaliation against the murder of the UNIDAD captain. 
El Wey easily cracked, but before he could divulge the information, word got out that Mexico City was obliterated in a nuclear explosion. Realizing the implications of this, El Wey swore up and down that he knew nothing about the nuclear bombing of Mexico City. 
=== US military deployment ===
In response to the nuclear bombing of Mexico City, the United States government quickly authorized Operation Kingslayer, a joint operation involving a US special operations unit named Ghost Recon, a multinational special operations unit named Task Force 141, and Fourth Echelon, a top secret unit of the National Security Agency. Their orders were to uncover the identity of the individual who stole and detonated the bomb, then apprehend or kill them.
=== Operation Oracle ===
Upon their arrival in Bolivia, the Ghost team was tasked by CIA officer and handler Bowman to rescue a Mexican engineer named Daniel Rodriguez Arellano, who worked as a technical director for megacorporation and tech company Skell Tech, who had been arrested by UNIDAD and was being held prisoner in an underground UNIDAD facility. Bowman claimed that Arellano knew something about the nuclear bomb explosion in Mexico City, which got him arrested by UNIDAD. Unbeknownst to Nomad and the team, fellow Ghosts operative Cole D. Walker got to him first, having massacred the Skell Tech prisoner’s UNIDAD guards singlehandedly.
After navigating through the facility, Nomad found Walker and an unconscious Daniel. Walker claimed that Arellano had turned traitor and was feeding secrets to UNIDAD. Furthermore, Walker accused Arellano himself of being one of the co-conspirators of the nuclear bomb explosion and that Karen Bowman was somehow protecting him despite his guilt. Unfortunately, UNIDAD sent reinforcements after discovering the aftermath of Walker’s rampage and Walker assisted Nomad and the Ghost team in extracting Daniel to a safe house in Inca Camina, southern Bolivia.
Nomad suspected something bigger was going on and decided to retask his team with tailing Arellano, discovering that Daniel had arranged to meet with the Ghosts’ CIA handler without any security.
Nomad immediately reported his findings to Walker, who directed them to an airfield in nearby Malca Province. Upon their arrival, Walker revealed that he’d had led a team that were killed by drones he claimed Arellano helped UNIDAD build using stolen US national security secrets. He swore his vengeance, but Nomad told him to hold off on his craving for vengeance until they figured out what was happening.
Guided by a tracker Walker planted on Daniel, the team reached a farmhouse guarded by UNIDAD patrols. After eliminating them, Nomad confronted Daniel, who admitted to being coerced by UNIDAD into selling out Bowman and that she had been taken to Mobile Operating Base Jaguar in Floro De Oro province. Walker executed Daniel afterwards, much to Nomad’s outrage.
Upon reaching the base, Walker told Nomad of an UNIDAD captain who knew where Bowman was being kept before reaching the location himself. Nomad and his team interrogated the UNIDAD captain and eventually located Bowman, tied to a chair while Walker attempted to interrogate her. Walker then told her that UNIDAD had a data server in the building that he had reason to believe contained proof of Arellano's collusion with UNIDAD and that Bowman was covering for him. Walker asked Nomad to hack into UNIDAD's computer system and obtain the data containing this so-called evidence. A disbelieving Nomad eventually agreed, but not before cutting Bowman loose. UNIDAD, alerted to the breach, sent reinforcements to kill the Ghosts and recover the stolen information, but Nomad and company were able to successfully repel the UNIDAD forces and escape with Bowman, the so-called "evidence" and Walker.
Upon their arrival, Bowman attempted to defend her actions against Walker’s claims that Bowman was committing treason by helping an alleged enemy spy. While Bowman argued that she had orders to safeguard the interests of US personnel in Bolivia, as well as the Bolivian people, Walker argued that Bowman should've executed Daniel the second she knew he'd turned (a claim Bowman didn't believe at all), and that Bowman could soon be selling information herself if she could protect such a person. Bowman retorted by cursing Walker, causing him to erupt in a rage about how her orders got his men killed and aided UNIDAD. Fortunately, Nomad was able to talk Walker down before things got ugly. Walker, being an old friend of Nomad, chose to trust his judgment, warning Bowman that if she strayed from the law again, he'd come to "collect that debt."
However, unbeknownst to the Ghosts and the US government, Operation Kingslayer would soon be compromised; mere minutes after the conclusion of Operation Oracle, Keres Legion publicly exposed Operation Kingslayer-as well as the existence of everyone who was involved-to the world before it could even gain any real ground in the war against Santa Blanca.
=== Konni Group enters the war ===
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=== Battle of Caracas ===
Meanwhile, the United States government deployed a separate team of Ghosts, this time led by Gabriel "Prophet" Rorke, with the intention of assassinating Diego Almagro and ending his support of Santa Blanca. After learning that the Americans were after him, Diego Almagro ordered his men to blow up a dam near the city, killing a large majority of US troops, as well as his own men. However, Rorke survived long enough to stop Almagro from escaping in a private helicopter and killed him. The helicopter crashed and in the process Rorke fell into the raging floodwaters.
Rorke was presumed KIA by his teammates, but unbeknownst to them, he had actually survived and fled into the Amazon Rainforest. Unfortunately, after some time he was captured by the Santa Blanca cartel and subjected to torture techniques and brainwashing methods in a bid to turn Rorke against his country. They used extreme and exotic torture methods from an Amazon Tribe to break down his resistance. According to declassified documents discovered by Ghost Recon operator Nomad, the cartel broke Rorke's body by feeding him foods mixed with poisons from exotic plants and then moves to his mind and soul. When his mind broke, they went to work on his soul. They rebuilt what was left by twisting him to their purposes. 
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