Amazonian War

## Amazonian Wars

Bolivia:

* Kataris 26
* UNIDAD (After July, 2019)

Venezuela

Bolivia:

* UNIDAD (Before July, 2019)

Kataris 26:

* Pac Katari (Before July, 2019)
* Amaru (Deceased)
* Matador (After July, 2019)
* Erendira Buenda

UNIDAD (After July, 2019):

* General Baro

UNIDAD:

* General Baro (Before July, 2019)
* El Comandante (KIA)

Central Intelligence Agency operatives

Venezuelan Army officers

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.

As United States intelligence services began operating in Bolivia in response to the rising Santa Blanca threat, numerous agents were deployed to Bolivia, with many infiltrating the cartel. Amongst these agents included CIA Agent Karen Bowman and undercover DEA Agent Ricky Sandoval. During a meeting with cartel heads, a failed attempt by rebels of the Kataris 26 to wipe out the cartel leadership commenced. During the subsequent purges, Sandoval was outed as a mole and subsequently captured. After enduring torture for nearly two days straight, his body was dumped in a container. Concurrently on the 27th of July, the United States Embassy at La Paz was bombed, seemingly by the Santa Blanca drug cartel, resulting in two Marine guards injured.

At around the same time, a notorious computer hacker codenamed "Matador" arrived in Bolivia, having fled his native country to escape a toxic environment back home. Hearing about the bombing, Matador decided to exact his vengeance against the cartel, but he knew he wouldn't be able to do so by himself. Allying himself with the Kataris 26, Matador and his cadre of fellow expatriates (two from the United States, two from Turkey) launched a series of raids and sabotage operations against the cartel. They began by assisting the Kataris 26 in robbing a bank whose owner was on the cartel's payroll and successfully framed several "moderate" cartel lieutenants within the organization.

## Events of the war

### Operation Silent Spade

As Matador and his expatriates embarked on a vengeful rampage against the Santa Blanca cartel, the United States government mobilized its special forces alongside its intelligence services. Dubbed Operation: Kingslayer, the operation was jointly led by the CIA, DEA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Deploying its elite Ghost Recon unit, a team, led by Major Dominic "Nomad" Rubio, was inserted into Bolivia alongside their handler Karen Bowman, who had been posing as an aid worker. However, owing to the operation's covert nature, the Kingslayer team was ordered to assist the battered Kataris 26, and allow them to take credit of Sueño's downfall shortly after the completion of the operation.

The first stage of the operation was Operation Silent Spade. The objective was to investigate allegations that Venezuela had collaborated with a Russian Ultranationalist organization called Raven's Rock to fund cartel operations in Bolivia. Linking up with a Ghost Recon operator named "Little Brother", the Ghost Team was able to discover that Raven's Rock and Venezuela were selling stolen US military technology to both Santa Blanca and UNIDAD. Nomad contacted Karen Bowman, who led them to a trainyard where the uranium was transported to. They learn that Santa Blanca plan to detonate a dirty bomb in Barvechos, a city that openly supports the rebels.

With Kozak's help, the team attempted to disarm the truck bomb but were ultimately unable to, forcing them to drive it off a cliff into a mining area. With the bomb dealt with and the uranium accounted for, Mitchell and Kozak left Bolivia.

Stage Two of the operation was Operation Oracle. This time, the Kingslayer Team was to investigate Daniel Rodriguez Arellano, a Skell Tech engineer who was incarcerated by UNIDAD thanks to his knowledge of sensitive US government secrets that needed to stay secret. Unbeknownst to the Ghost team, Ghost Recon operator Cole D. Walker had gotten to him first, single-handedly killing every Unidad soldier that tried to stop him. The aftermath of Walker's killing spree was discovered by Nomad, who expressed shock and disbelief at how he managed to tear through the UNIDAD guards on his own. After navigating through the underground Unidad facility in Montuyoc Province, Bolivia, Nomad found Walker and an unconscious Daniel. Walker then went on to claim that Daniel was selling US secrets to Unidad, a claim that Nomad was skeptical of at first. When Unidad found out what was going on and sent reinforcements, Walker assisted Nomad and his team during their extraction of Daniel. At one point, they were surrounded by Unidad forces, but Walker volunteered to hold them off on his own, while telling Nomad to "finish the damn mission." After extracting Daniel to the safe house, Nomad had a funny feeling that something bigger was going on and ended up tailing Daniel to a restaurant in Inca Camina, Bolivia, where he was overheard talking to his wife about Skell Tech director Jace Skell coming to take him to his private island, known as Auroa. He then made a second phone call to Bowman, increasing Nomad and the team's suspicions. Nomad then contacted Walker, who told him and his team to meet up at an airfield in nearby Malca Province.

Upon their arrival, Nomad and his team were introduced to the remnants of Walker's own team, whom Walker claimed were killed by drones Unidad built using the secrets Daniel was selling them. He then swore his revenge, but Nomad told him to hold off on his desire for payback until they figured out what was happening.

Guided by a tracker Walker had planted on Daniel, the team reached a farmhouse, only to find it crawling with Unidad patrols. After Nomad and his team eliminated the Unidad soldiers surrounding the farm, he confronted Daniel, who admitted to being coerced by Unidad into selling out Bowman, claiming that they wouldn't let him leave the country without her, and that she was being held captive in MOB Jaguar, an UNIDAD outpost in Floro De Oro Province. Following this, Walker executed Daniel for his "treason", much to Nomad's shock and anger.

Desperate to reach Bowman, Nomad and his team hightailed it to MOB Jaguar. En-route, Walker went on a rant about how Bowman and the CIA have been playing a dangerous game that gets soldiers killed. Upon arrival at MOB Jaguar, Walker scouted out the base, killing any UNIDAD soldiers in his way, and told Nomad of an UNIDAD captain who knew where Bowman was being held, before going to the location himself. While this was happening, Matador and his allies, acting on a lead given to them by a Kataris 26 lieutenant stationed in Floro De Oro Province, launched a raid on an UNIDAD data center inside MOB Jaguar, intending to obtain intelligence on UNIDAD operations in the area. They accidentally stumbled upon Walker, who was questioning Karen Bowman. At this point, the Matador is revealed to be Cole Walker's nephew Gauge, who demands to know what Walker was doing. Walker explained the situation to his nephew (at least, the unclassified parts). Walker then learned that Gauge was seeking retribution against Santa Blanca for the embassy bombing, a goal he immediately sympathized with and pledged his support towards.

Taking the young man aside, Cole Walker then privately expressed his sorrow to Gauge regarding his family situation, revealing that Gauge had fled the country due to a toxic family life back home. The Ghost Team led by Nomad soon stumbled upon what was going on as well. Taking advantage of the chaos and confusion, a large force of UNIDAD soldiers stormed the underground bunker, intending to kill Gauge and prevent him from obtaining the data on UNIDAD's "dirty little secrets", in addition to murdering Karen Bowman to silence her. Unfortunately for UNIDAD, this attempt failed, as Cole Walker and the Ghosts were able to rescue Bowman, while at the same time providing a diversion so that Gauge and his fellow vigilantes could escape with their lives.

Upon arriving at the safe house, Bowman attempted to defend her actions against Walker's claims that Bowman was committing treason by helping a so-called "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."

Before departing, Walker privately contacted his nephew, announcing his intentions to assist Matador in his war against Santa Blanca and UNIDAD, an offer that Gauge happily accepted.

### 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.

### Matador's Campaign

Agreeing to collaborate in a two-pronged offensive against both Santa Blanca and UNIDAD, the Kingslayer team began assisting rebel forces in consolidating in the various provinces, while Matador and his comrades went to work dismantling the SB cartel piece by piece, targeting their four main operations by attacking drugs production facilities and stockpiles, disrupting smuggling operations, discrediting the cartel in the eyes of corrupt politicians and supporters, and inciting conflict between the cartel's senior figures.

Now with Cole Walker and the Kingslayer Team jointly aiding his campaign, Gauge and his comrades began inflicting heavy losses against the cartel, eventually managing to turn UNIDAD commander General Baro against the cartel, something nobody even thought was possible. At some point, it was discovered that Venezuela was involved in the takeover of Bolivia by the Santa Blanca cartel. Further investigation revealed that Venezuelan military general Diego Almagro was secretly funding Santa Blanca operations in Bolivia, much to the ire of the United States.