Antón Castillo

Antón Castillo is the main antagonist of Far Cry 6.Far Cry 6 Website
==Background ==
In 1967 when Antón's was 13 years old, his father was El Presidente of Yara. When the Revolution of 1967 occurred, Antón's father was executed right in front of him. Antón was briefly imprisoned and then sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor on Yara's tobacco fields. Rumor has it he still has the pruning knife he used as a reminder.Far Cry 6 Story Trailer. He was raised by his mother who made sure her son knew that his father had lost everything he built by those who killed him.Exclusive Interview: El Presidente Gives Hope to Our People [La Voz de Yara During his 15 years sentence, his mother still raised him and educated him until his adulthood, as he had to work on tobacco fields and didn't receive education from schools. As a result, Antón grew up with the view that the island was stolen from his family. After Antón finished his sentence at 28 years old, he stayed in touch with his mother for the rest of her life.
In the ensuing decades, Yara experienced great economic decline, affirming Antón's belief that only the Castillo family could save the island. As such, he became El Presidente himself, elected under the promise that he could rebuild Yara into the country it had been fifty years ago. However, he began to run things with an iron fist, and those who spoke out against his methods were taken into forced labor. Economic sanctions were imposed on the country in response, which led to unrest. Responding in turn, Antón tightened his grip on the island.Everything We Know About Far Cry 6
His resolve further increased when his mother died of breast cancer in 2007 and he also developed acute blood cancer (leukemia) within the same year. María Marquessa convinced him to have a child for insurance, even though he hated children. Still, Maria successfully convinced him, thus Diego was born. Against Antón's initial request, María doesn't let Diego know the truth that he is her son and doesn't want any involvement with his life either, although later on at her mansion in Noventarmas, she wrote to Antón that she accepts the new "contract" in which she would meet Diego at his 18th birthday and finally admit to him that she is his mother. As Antón has blood cancer (leukemia) and might not be able to raise Diego until his adulthood, Maria assured Antón that Diego would be provided for financially by her estates should something happen to Antón.
Antón remains determined to restore Yara to its former glory, grooming his son Diego to succeed him and follow in his bloody footsteps. Antón's oppressive actions resulted in revolution.Far Cry 6 Leak: Release Date Seemingly Revealed, Confirms Giancarlo Esposito As Villain The revolution known as Libertad would continue growing when Anton confronts Clara García and Dani Rojas in a war against his regime. During the war between Libertad and his regime, Anton was kept alive through the medicine known as Viviro. However, it began to stop working by 2021 and he begins to slowly die of leukemia again. 
When being confronted by Dani Rojas, Antón says goodbye to both Diego and Dani, expressing his wishful thinking that Diego will be protected in the bleak future of Yara after he is gone. Although Dani promised to protect Diego, Antón discarded Dani 's promise as lies, and abruptly shot Diego in a twisted form of mercy killing, likely because he doesn't want Diego to suffer. Antón also immediately slit his own throat with his tobacco pruning blade and died alongside his son.
If Dani takes the boat to leave Yara and live in the US, a news report from a Latin radio station owned by the United States can be heard talking about Antón, claiming that his special forces killed Clara Garcia and that "war has ended in Yara." Whether that is true or not is left unverified due to Castillo's regime's tight censorship. Since the report was heard 3 months after Dani left Yara, all that can be known is Antón managed to live on for 3 more months and as he is still the leader of Yara with his regime still standing, he's likely found a way to manage his condition so that he can endure it for longer but it's unknown if he's able to fully recover or if he's still doomed to die from his disease. However he's able to successfully secure his regime with Diego likely being groomed for his role so his legacy and his vision is likely to come to pass.
==Personality and Traits==
As the leader of Yara, Anton Castillo stood fearless and stoic, even in the face of his enemies. When spoken to, Anton displays the character of a highly charismatic, thoughtful, cultured and educated individual, with him being able to convince most of Yara to side with him without lies. He also exhibits the traits of individuals in high society and even possesses refined tastes. His character gives him a great gift of diplomacy, allowing him to reach out to foreigners of power and influence to side with him and work to help him achieve his future vision of Yara. 
Castillo's personal beliefs are based around concepts like ultranationalism and "Survival of the Fittest", being for many an example of fascism. Despite these personal beliefs, Castillo wanted Yara and its people to economically prosper by becoming a renowned world power. He came to create an experimental cure for cancer called Viviro. He believed that when Viviro was fully developed, Castillo would enrich his country by selling that cure. That he also served as an excuse to cure his leukemia or at least slow it down to the point that he can live for decades more. 
While not outright godless, Anton is not very religious and holds a very twisted perspective on Christianity, such as being a lion that eats the lambs that are the people. That saying became his mantra that a good leader must be ruthless to rule his people and help them prosper. These beliefs caused Yaran society to be divided into "True Yarans" (those who supported Castillo's regime and vision for Yara) and "Fake Yarans" (those who resisted him and wanted another revolution), similar to the communist Khmer Rouge against those who rejected and resisted Pol Pot's policies. He also farsighted to realize that the Libertads who oppose him will likely to repeat the same mistakes as his predecessor, Espinosa, causing him to question how the Libertads would govern Yara when he is gone. 
Despite being a man of staunch conservative ideology, Anton holds no chauvinistic beliefs and despises prejudice against genders and ethnicities. He holds disgust at previous Yaran societies who would refuse to let a capable woman like his own mother be a leader due to her gender and ethnicity. He even stated such with Cadet Aña Benítez , and enlisted her as Admiral from the military academy for being a woman, despite the fact that there were students more capable, bolder and smarter than her.
Anton, although he is an expert manipulator, does not like lies, always asking if what they tell him is true or if it is a lie. He managed to manipulate the Yaran people through propaganda without even lying and relying on his wits and charisma alone. However, he concealed the unethical means of getting Yara uprooted, as his experiments with the Viviro were giving successful and unsuccessful results. Castillo believed in a line of succession to the Castillo family, naming his son Diego his as his successor. He came to teach him to be a great leader, even denying the freedom of expression of his son so that he would be a good president, even being severe with him. 
==Quotes==
"I have caught a very big fish today, haven't I Diego?"
"Diego!"
"There are lions, and there are lambs. Rule, or be ruled. A Castillo must be a lion... for Yara is full of lambs."
"Lies."
"Yara is burning. And you don't put out fires with free elections."
== Trivia== 
*Antón's actor, Giancarlo Esposito, has worked with Vaas Montenegro's actor, Michael Mando, in the popular show Better Call Saul.
*Antón’s surname translates in English to “Castle”.
*Antón is of biracial African and Spaniard heritage, similar to his actor, Giancarlo Esposito, who was born to an African-American mother and Italian father.
*Although he had a nephew, this would mean he has or had a brother or sister, yet he/she was never brought up in any conversations nor was he mentioned anywhere else. They don’t even appear on the Castillo family portraits. This could indicate that the siblings was born after Gabriel’s death, by an unknown father. If this was true, it could be a possible explanation to why Antón doesn’t like José, because he/she wasn’t one of Gabriel’s sons or daughters. Alternatively, José's parent could be a child of Gabriel Castillo with a different mother. This may explain the José having the Castillo last name but Antón not liking him, as Antón regularly criticizes his father but does not criticize Yolanda.
*It is heavily implied but not confirmed that Yara was once a racist society following the ousting of Antón's father, which may have hardened Antón's resolve and made him even more twisted (due to Anton's mother being black).
*Despite having a surname that sounds similar to "Castro", he is primarily based on Fulgencio Batista, the former dictator of Cuba. Both men oversaw a brutal regime of government repression, censorship and corruption. Like Batista, Castillo is locked in a civil war for control of his island nation. He is also not above doing business with foreign investors such as Sean McKay, despite severe economic sanctions. Unlike Batista, he does not flee his country when the war turns against him, instead preferring to kill his own son and himself rather than suffer at the hands of the rebels.
*His relationship with María Marquessa is similar to the dictator Augusto Pinochet whose wife was María Lucía Hiriart, as well as the dictator Rafael Trujillo whose wife was María de los Ángeles Martínez y Alba.
*He seeks revenge against those who executed his father Gabriel Castillo, similar to Ramfis Trujillo who sought revenge against those who assassinated his father Rafael Trujillo, although Antón Castillo is much less successful with only a tank soldier imprisoned as other Legends of 67 are safe in Patriotas Peak, unlike Ramfis Trujillo who successfully killed all those who were involved in the assassination of his father.
*Castillo came to power through free elections, similar to the Austrian-born German dictator Adolf Hitler.
*He is the second antagonist in the series that is a military dictator, the first being Pagan Min.
**Unlike Min, Castillo is a native of his game's setting, as well as conservative in his attire and mannerisms. He also came to power through free elections rather than deception and violence.
*In Contrast to Joseph Seed, who's the youngest main antagonist in the franchise (age 42), Antón is the oldest with age at 67. 
**Ironically his age also reflects the revolution in 1967 when his father Gabriel was deposed. Both revolutions of Yara is connected with the number 67.
* The scene in which Castillo points his personal pistol at Clara Garcia at the dining room table so that Dani Rojas drops hers is similar to the one in the last chapter of the second season of the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, specifically when Mando enters Grogu's cell and finds Moff Gideon (also played by Giancarlo Esposito) pointing at Grogu forcing him to also drop his gun.
** Speaking of his personal pistol. The engravings and gold barrel with white handle, is very similar to Adolf Hitlers personal Walther PP. Although Castillo pistol is an 1911 Extended barrel.
* Antón supposedly smells like "a warm tropical breeze, with just a hint of spiced rum".Exclusive Interview: El Presidente gives hope to our people [La Voz de Yara #3]
* He is the only villain so far in the series to question those that oppose him on how they can manage to deal with the aftermath after he is disposed of. 
* The player can still hear broadcasts from Castillo even after his death.
==Gallery==
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==References==
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