Delgado Cartel in 2020.
The Delgado Cartel was one of the biggest drug cartels in Colombia, bent on world domination. It was originally led by Don Ricardo Delgado, who died in an coordinated bombing. The leadership then passed on to Fernando Delgado, who was assassinated together with his eldest son in his Chilean mansion. After that, the leadership passed on to Fernando's nephew, Rico Delgado, and after his death, to his younger brother, Héctor Delgado.
Biography[]
The Delgado Empire was founded in the volatile-cartel business of the 1990s in Colombia, lead by the infamous Ricardo Delgado. With the pressure of the Colombian government on the cartels, Don Delgado's compound was bombed by the military, leaving only his wife and two sons, Héctor Delgado and his planned successor Rico Delgado alive. Leadership soon fell to Don Delgado's brother, Fernando Xalvador Delgado, who moved the cartel to his old vineyard in Chile, possibly because of the drug wars fought by Pablo Belisario Ochoa, and his cartel at the time. In 2004, Fernando, together with his eldest son, Manuel Delgado, were killed by Agent 47, under the orders of the ICA.
This marked a five-year hiatus in the history of the Delgado cartel, when Rico mysteriously infiltrated and joined the Moreno Cartel, the biggest cartel of the southern hemisphere, and one of Providence's main assets, until 2009. By then, Rico betrayed them, assembled his younger brother Héctor, his former uncle's chief chemist Jorge, and his childhood friend Andrea to build up the Delgado cartel once again.
Rising at an extremely fast rate, the Delgado's and the Moreno's remained in a stalemate for about 10 years until Rico ordered the murder of Chico, the younger cousin of the Moreno Cartel's leader Esteban Montoya. The Morenos tried to crush the Delgados in retaliation, which only resulted with Rico Delgado partnering up with the Shadow Client and his militia, in exchange for information on the killer of his uncle, and help with the destruction of the Moreno Cartel. The militia used the Delgado's robust worldwide smuggling networks for its own logistics.
Already becoming the number-one cartel of Colombia, Rico planned on becoming the biggest cartel in the world. This, however, was once again stopped by Agent 47, who eliminated him, Jorge Franco, and Andrea Martinez in their headquarters of Santa Fortuna, Colombia. After the deaths of the three, Héctor Delgado assumed leadership.