Rico Delgado

Manuel Delgado (Cousin)

Hèctor Delgado (Brother)

Andrea Martinez (Adopted cousin)

Catalina Delgado (Wife-Cousin)

Odalis Delgado (Relative)

**Rico Delgado** (also known as The Boss) is a target that appears in the Three-Headed Serpent mission in *HITMAN™ 2*.

## Background

*Rico Delgado is the dictatorial head of the Delgado Cartel, a supremely successful family-based drug cartel based in Colombia. Rico uses his ruthless nature and personal charm to sway the minds of adversaries and partners alike, favoring the old ways of offering people the choice between silver and lead.*

*Rico Delgado grew up with his younger brother Hèctor in the volatile cartel business during the early 90's. Rico was quickly chosen to be the successor of his father, though he had to postpone that plan when the Colombian government cracked down hard on the cartels. Rico had to flee the family estate with his mother and younger brother when the military started bombing the compound and just days later, he would see pictures of his dead father in the newspapers and the hurt on his mother's face.*

*Living with his mother's relatives in Santiago and spending summers with his uncle Fernando, who ran the infamous Delgado Cartel out of his old vineyard, Rico eventually decided he needed to go back home to Colombia to rebuild his father's empire. What met him was a ruin but the people in the nearby village all remembered the good Don Delgado and what he had done for the villagers. The locals helped Rico rebuild parts of the Delgado mansion grounds, and he also discovered that the locals had kept on growing the local coca fields. With things in progress, Rico started on a plan to rebuild the Delgado empire. Determined to bring the Delgado name back to its glory days, Rico saw the rebuilding of his family empire as his primary objective in life.*
*With the occasional assistance of his younger brother Hector, and the full-time support of his uncle Fernando's adopted daughter Andrea Martinez, Rico Delgado quickly liaised with the Delgado family's connections and old smugglers, rebuilding the network from the ground up. To begin with, the trio focused on various types of contraband to keep under the radar and to build up a solid logistics network, but he soon got back into drugs as well. In 2009, Rico Delgado got in touch with his uncle's old chemist and brought him to Colombia and together they started a new production line, hidden away in the nearby jungles.*

## Trivia

* During Three-Headed Serpent, Rico will have three phone conversations with Lucas Grey in which he:
	+ Seeks the names of those responsible for his uncle and cousin's deaths in exchange for his still-unfinished narco-sub. Grey asks that Rico finish the sub first as part of their deal, much to his protest. Grey argues that the sub will help him combat the rival Moreno cartel on his behalf.
	+ Finds out about Providence, which Grey says backs the Morenos. Grey says the Delgado's base needs to be strengthened before they can move against them.
	+ Reports that Ether Biotech Corporation's chief biochemist, Oscar Wong, was successfully interrogated, and released as requested.
* During Freedom Fighters, Sean Rose will call Rico regarding the logistics of moving a team into Mexico for the operation against Providence operative Gustavo Torres.
* The one who killed Rico's uncle and cousin was, of course, 47 himself in A Vintage Year.
* Rico keeps a few mementos in a display room of his mansion:
	+ "The Head-Splitter", a baseball bat he often used while he worked as an enforcer for the Moreno Cartel. The last person he used it on was his former boss, after which he left the Moreno Cartel and went on to be their biggest rival.
	+ A sports car he bought after making his first million dollars; very soon after, the car was damaged in a shootout between Rico and some American DEA agents.
	+ The mugshot from his first and only arrest; by the time he was arrested, he and Andrea had already been steadily bribing the Chief of Police and Rico walked away free within a few hours.
* During The Showstopper, Andrea Martinez tells Dalia Margolis that Rico would like to marry her.
* If you choose to stop doing the tatoo on Rico he will look in the mirror and complement it.
* Rico is Straight