Valeria Garza

Name: Valeria Garza

Alias(es): El Sin Nombre, The Nameless, The Sicaria (by Soap), F--king Scorpion (by Vargas)

Nationality: Mexican

Affiliations: Las Almas Cartel, Mexican Special Forces (formerly), KorTac

Rank: Leader of Las Almas Cartel

Gender: Female

Birth: 1987, Mexico

Age: 37

Appearance: Height 172 santimeters, weight 66, Body type average, there is a slightly pronounced musculature, Tattoos on both arms, Black hair, Dark brown eyes

Personality: Ruthless, Cunning and manipulative, Plays by her own rules, Impatient yet restrained, Believes the end justifies the means, Ultraregionalist, Seeks to recreate the greatness of Mexico, Sharp mind, Displays hatred towards opposing factions, Maintains composure in crises, Cold and closed off in ordinary interactions, Keeps her plans secret except for when advantageous, Formidable adversary, Strategic thinker, Devoted to her cartel's interests, Ambitious, Unafraid of getting her hands dirty, Utilizes terrorism to achieve her goals, Influential in criminal and political circles, Intolerant of failure, Cruel and firm in character

Alias(es)

El Sin Nombre

Nationality

Mexican

Affiliations

Las Almas Cartel

KorTac

Mexican Special Forces (formerly)

Rank

Leader of Las Almas Cartel

Gender

Female

Marks

Tattoos on both arms

Hair

Black

Eyes

Dark Brown

Weapons

.50 GS, Lachmann-556

Equipment

Combat Knife

Biography

A former member of the Mexican Special Forces, Valeria Garza served in the RED team alongside Jesus "Chuy" Ordaz and worked with Alejandro Vargas' Los Vaqueros. In 2014[1], the RED team participated in a raid on the son of La Araña. Unbeknownst to Alejandro and Chuy, many members of the RED team, including Valeria, were enforcers for the La Araña Cartel. They turned against their former teammates and escorted the son of La Araña to the mountains before executing him. Valeria established the Las Almas Cartel shortly after under the name "El Sin Nombre", while posing as the second in command and chief enforcer of the cartel.

In late 2022, Valeria made a deal with Hassan Zyani to transport him and several stolen ballistic missiles across the border. She provided him with Cartel forces as protection, though Hassan would soon be captured by Task Force 141 and Shadow Company. Task Force 141 would later send one of their operatives, Johnny "Soap" MacTavish, undercover alongside Alejandro to infiltrate El Sin Nombre's private mansion. Soap encountered Valeria, unaware of her real identity, and was interrogated by her. Later, Soap and Alejandro found out Valeria was El Sin Nombre, and proceeded to apprehend her with the assistance of Shadow Company and Mexican Special Forces. Under captivity, Valeria agreed to tell Task Force 141 the location of the missiles that she transported for Hassan, in exchange for her freedom and non-interference with her cartel's drug operations. However, this deal would eventually be broken when Shepherd ordered Shadow Company to eliminate all traces linking him back to the missiles, including Task Force 141 and Los Vaqueros. This led to Shadow Company killing many within Las Almas to eliminate Task Force 141 members and also capture Hassan.

Valeria would eventually be rescued by Task Force 141 and Alejandro's men from the custody of Shadow Company. In return, she revealed that Hassan and the final missile are in Chicago. As she was led away by Alejandro to be imprisoned by Mexican authorities, she taunted him and the rest of Task Force 141 that she cannot be imprisoned forever and would be free within 24 hours.

Rise to Power

At some point in her life, Valeria joined the Mexican Special Forces as part of the Fuerzas Speciales, and had served alongside Alejandro Vargas in the same unit despite being in the same squad. los Vaqueros However, Valeria was secretly in league with the La Araña Cartel which had been plaguing Las Almas for years under the leadership of La Araña's son.

Eventually, the Speciales launched a raid on La Araña's son to arrest him and bring down the cartel. The RED team, which included Valeria, were assigned to cordon off the city to prevent any bloodshed against the civilian population during the raid. However, since Valeria and other members of the team were secretly enforcers of the cartel, they betrayed the others and escorted La Araña's son to the mountains. But instead of protecting him, they instead executed him and took over the cartel.

With a power vacuum, Valeria reorganized the cartel into the Las Almas Cartel as its leader. She adopted the nickname "El Sin Nombre", which was Spanish for "the nameless", and she presented herself as the cartel's second-in-command to hide in plain sight. To gain public support, she had the cartel build infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and roads, whilst also bribing officers in Mexican Army and police force and recruiting ex-soldiers as enforcers. She even had those who resisted corruption executed and displayed on the street as examples.

As the unnamed head of a powerful cartel and very few people able to withstand her influence, Valeria became virtually untouchable.

Captured

Eventually, Las Almas began doing business with terrorist organizations, as Valeria knows that as long as the United States focuses on global terrorism, no one would pay enough attention to the war on drugs. Thus, at the request of Quds Force Major Hassan Zyani, Valeria had Las Almas helped Al-Qatala smuggle two ballistic to the United States as part of his retaliation for General Ghorbrani's assassination. She even helped Hassan sneak across the U.S.-Mexican border. Although Vargas and Rodolfo Parra intercepted, Hassan escaped their grasp and returned to Mexico. Eventually, two Las Almas compounds were assaulted by Los Vaqueros, led by Vargas, along with other American forces and captured Hassan before being forced to let him go.

Infuriated by how two compounds were raided within a short amount of time, Valeria gathered her lieutenants one night to her right-hand Diego Salgado's mansion, where she interrogated and tortured several of her own men for information, killing any of them if they didn't provide any useful intel. Diego then brought in Johnny "Soap" MacTavish, who turned up offering intel on the attacks. She interrogated him and Núñez for information, demanding they speak truthfully. While Núñez was unable to give Valeria anything, Soap told her that the compounds were attacked by Los Vaqueros aided by Shadow Company and were looking for the missiles Las Almas was shipping. Seeing Núñez was useless, she had Diego execute him and then she freed Soap. As he left the building, she says "El Sin Nombre" would be very interested in him.

Later that night, Valeria is contacting Hassan to assure him that the shipments will go accordingly. Depending on whether or not Soap was detected or if Diego was still alive, she is either informed by her troops/Diego about another visitor or if there is trouble and she needs to be escorted to safety. Regardless, Valeria stays put in her office until Soap and Vargas burst in with weapons. Valeria escapes while her men try to kill them, and she is then cornered on the rooftop by Shadow Company's CEO Phillip Graves. She is then arrested by Soap and exchanges dirty looks with Vargas, who is visibly upset with her betrayal.

Interrogation

Valeria is taken to Los Vaqueros' HQ and escorted to a shipping container for interrogation. Vargas reveals both his and Valeria's shared history, explaining how they served together and how she was on the previous cartel's payroll before overthrowing them during the raid on Las Araña. She justifies it by saying she created a power vacuum which she gladly filled, claiming that Las Almas needs her. Vargas retorts this, telling Valeria she disgraced the army, her brothers-in-arms and Las Almas needs soldiers, not sicarios. When Graves asked why she helped Al-Qatala and Hassan, she explains that it was good for business and that as long there was a war on terror, there was no war on drugs. She attempts to make a bargain despite Vargas' objections, who leaves. After Graves threatens Valeria, she gives them the location of a missile and tells them she'll give Hassan's location, in exchange for her freedom and they leave Las Almas. They leave her in the container whilst they retrieve the missile.

Eventually, after one missile was destroyed, the deal was broken when General Shepherd ordered Graves and Shadow Company to eliminate all links that would trace them both back to the missiles' theft. This included the elimination of Los Vaqueros and Task Force 141, and the company conducted a mass killing spree through the city, including cartel members. After the company took over the Los Vaqueros HQ, Valeria was trapped and unable to escape.

After Graves was defeated and the HQ was retaken, Valeria was questioned by Vargas and Task Force 141, now including Kyle "Gaz" Garrick and Captain John Price. After they confronted Valeria for knowing there was a third missile, she claimed that she didn't count and that she has others to do that for her. Vargas accused her of lying and they demand Hassan and the third missile's location, and she tells them it's Chicago. Realizing that she knew all along and didn't say anything, she says she would tell them but nothing about stopping Hassan. She defends herself, saying its business. Price warns Valeria she put a target on her back, but she counters by saying she put one in Chicago before demanding they leave Las Almas. Price threatens that she is Vargas' now but that they'll be back later for her, to which she looks forward to. Valeria is escorted to a vehicle and taunts them how she'll be out in 24 hours. Soap tells Valeria she's going down for what she did, but Valeria waves it off by saying it's not what she's done, but what they can prove. She was later taken into Mexican Special Forces' custody.

Escape

At some point between November 2022 and April 2023, Valeria was able to escape with the help of Las Almas. She and her troops then fled to Al Mazrah to conduct further activities and presumably gain new territories, prompting Alejandro to hunt her down yet again.

Personality

Valeria is known to be a manipulative, greedy, brutal and psychopathic woman who values her own fortune above anything else. Prior to becoming a drug queenpin, she was already corrupt and was more than happy to disgrace the army and her own brothers-in-arms for money. Her power-hungry nature also knows no limits, as despite protecting La Araña's son from a raid, she executed him and took over the cartel for herself. Her position as the unseen head of a powerful cartel has driven her to become unpredictable, intolerable of failures, and elusive as she created the façade of her working for "El Sin Nombre". Her influence and wealth has also made her arrogant where she would occasionally gloat her enemies, especially Vargas and 141, that it doesn't matter if she's arrested, because she would be out within a day.

Her sadism and lack of loyalty extends to her own minions, and she is more than willing to make examples out of those who fail her orders, whom she sees as making mistakes, or simply aren't useful to her empire. She is more than willing to kill and/or discard them if they are either of them. During the interrogation of Soap, depending on the player's choice, she would kill Soap without hesitation, even when he's not a minion. Her great power gives her great influence and fear, and she doesn't tolerate in eliminating anyone who resists her bribery or control, and laying victims on the streets to mark territory. While her cartel does do community services like build schools and roads, it was mainly excuse their operations and win the public's favor. She is also somewhat paranoid, threatening to kill Diego for potentially endangering her operations of bringing in Soap, an outsider, for intel, despite suspicions about him later being correct.

Perhaps notably, is Valeria's lack of regard for innocent life. She was cold, smug, and remorseless when helping Hassan Zyani smuggle ballistic missiles into the United States to use on innocent American civilians. Her reason being that it was distract the Americans from shutting her down by giving them terrorist threats that requires more attention. This proves that along with above mentioned characteristics, Valeria is more than willing to go to any lengths to hold onto money, power and control, even endanger countless innocent lives do this. She never even bothered wanted to help stop Hassan. Despite her psychopathy, Valeria is also highly intelligent as she knows openly presenting herself as the cartel's leader makes her a target. Upon questioning Soap, she would ask him to confirm her reports and if the player lies, she knew straight away that he was lying thanks to her resources and also her interrogation skills. She even tricked 141 into cutting a deal while also screwing them over with knowing about a third missile and where Hassan was going.

Phrases:

In April 2023, Valeria escaped custody, prompting Alejandro to hunt her down yet again. She ordered her Cartel troops to mobilize to Al Mazrah, where they began new operations, including cooperating with the Konni Group.

          «As long as there is a war on terror, there will be no real war on drugs.»

~ Valeria explaining her involvement with Hassan - also her most famous quote.

«Valeria: I'll be free in 24 hours... Can't say the same about you, Vaqueros.

Soap: You're going down for what you did.

Valeria: It doesn't matter what I did. It matters what you can prove.»

~ Valeria's departing words to Task Force 141 before she is taken away, smugly claiming she won't be in prison for long.

Quotes

“         Hmm, sit down.      „

~ Valeria when first time seeing Soap.  

“         Valeria: You motherfucker! We don't know him and he's seen our faces.

Diego: Valeria, we need intel. He could help us.

Valeria: He better. Or after I kill him, you'll be in that chair.

„

~ Valeria warning Diego about Soap and giving them intel. 

“         Ninos, This is simple. I ask questions, you answer truthfully. Do not lie to me. Recently we were protecting a friend in the mountains. Someone attacked us here. Who?    „

~ Valeria to Soap and Nunez.     

“         We found the bodies. Fuerzas Especiales.        „

~ Valeria to Soap after he said Mexican Special Forces.      

“         Los Vaqueros is working with Mercenaries.      „

~ Valeria to Diego that Los Vaqueros was working with Shadow Company.       

“         Can you prove this "Shadow Company" even exists, Imbecile?       „

~ Valeria to Nunez about Shadow Company.  

“         Time to kill this useless motherfucker.  „

~ Valeria to Diego to kill Nunez after Soap tells the truth.   

“         How nice, did good here. Well done. Let's get to work.         „

~ Valeria to Soap.  

“         I have a feeling, El Sin Nombre will be, very interested in talking to you.          „

~ Valeria to Soap about the boss El Sin Nombre.      

“         The Shipment from Spain arrived on schedule. I, I can assure you my men will conclude the arrangement and the packages will be in place. {...} Safe travels. Okay, let's begin.  „

~ Valeria when on a phone call and preparing a meeting with El Sin Nombre with Soap.   

“         I kneel for no one, motherfucker! „

~ Valeria while apprehended by Graves and Shadow Company.    

“         My name is Valeria. {...} Hiding? I'm everywhere, soldier.     „

~ Valeria when captured by Soap, Graves, Alejandro and Shadow Company.    

“         Strong words are important. Our word is our worth, right? „

~ Valeria to Alejandro, Soap, Ghost, Rodolfo and Graves.    

“         I don't take orders anymore. Even the dogs in Las Almas know not know not to bark at me.   „

~ Valeria to Alejandro, Rodolfo, Soap, Ghost and Graves.    

“         Different squads, same unit. You were the wild ones, huh? Los Vaqueros. My squad was clean cut senores y senoras.         „

~ Valeria to Alejandro, Rodolfo, Soap, Ghost and Graves.    

“         He was escorted to the mountains without incident. Also to prevent bloodshed.    „

~ Valeria to Alejandro, Rodolfo, Soap, Ghost and Graves.    

“         You tell me. You're the contractor, no? What you don't do, your competitors will.     „

~ Valeria to Graves.

“         Terrorism is good for business, It's insurance. „

~ Valeria to Ghost about working with Hassan.        

“         Can you get your fucking head out of your ass for a second?! For fuck's sake, Alejandro.      „

~ Valeria's villainous breakdown to Alejandro.

“         To find your so-called terrorist, and your missiles, you need me - to prevent bloodshed.  „

~ Valeria mockingly offering a deal to Shadow, 141 and Los Vaqueros.   

“         I don't know the targets, I'm a courier. I move things. I can tell you where to find the missiles. When you return - I'll tell where Hassan is. In exchange - you will let me go, and Get the fuck out of Las Almas. Se me largan ya.      „

~ Valeria to Soap, Ghost, Rodolfo and Graves.

“         Alejandro.     „

~ Valeria in "Ghost Team".         

“         Valeria:What happened, fucking cowboy? Did you start a war? Violence follows you everywhere, I like it.

Alejandro: I didn't make a deal with you, they did.

Valeria:That's your mistake.

„

~ Valeria to Alejandro after he and the 141 saved the Los Vaqueros Base after stopping Graves and Shadow Company.         

“         Oh, I didn't count them. I have people for that. {...} Chicago.          „

~ Valeria to Price, Ghost, Gaz and Alejandro.  

“         I said I'd tell you where he was, I didn't say I would stop him.       „

~ Valeria to Price, Gaz, Ghost and Alejandro about Hassan.

“         I run a business, senores. We grow or we die, It's the way of the world.          „

~ Valeria to Price, Gaz, Ghost and Alejandro.  

“         No, I put a target in Chicago. Now fucking leave Las Almas and go find it. Fucking assholes, get out of here.     „

~ Valeria to Price, Gaz, Ghost and Alejandro about the third missile in Chicago.      

“         I look forward to it. „

~ Valeria to Price, Gaz, Ghost and Alejandro.  

“         What the fuck have you been, pendejos?         „

~ Valeria to her men in the season three cinematic.  

“         Try and stop me, Alejandro.        „

~ Valeria in the season three cinematic.