Pedro "El Wey" Gil (12 December 1988-) was the pyrolusite mine supervisor for the Mexican Santa Blanca Cartel.
Biography[]
Pedro Gil was born in Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico in 1988. Born to a family of miners, he learned that profession during his childhood years and befriended Ronaldo "El Boquita" Villa in elementary school. While they lost contact after Pedro moved, they reconnected again as teenagers, and Villa offered Gil his first cartel job in a cocaine lab. Gil started to experiment with the lab chemicals, resulting in an explosion that burned his face. After the Santa Blanca Cartel's move to Bolivia, Gil was entrusted with extracting pyrolusite and transforming it into the chemical agent that allowed the cartel to turn coca leaves into high-quality cocaine. He sent the agent to all the Bolivian narco-labs from his base in Villa Verde Province.
El Wey in 2019
In 2019, the United States launched Operation Kingslayer to take down the cartel. The USA's Ghost Recon special forces team shut down Gil's pyrolusite mining operations in Villa Verde and also provoked a war between the cartel and La Unidad by assassinating the Unidad officer Joaquin Bento - who had previously mocked Gil's scarred face - and planting Gil's signature shotgun shells on his body. Cartel boss El Sueño, seeking to restore peace with the Bolivian Army, ordered Gil's death, while Unidad also initiated a manhunt for him. The Ghosts were able to track down Gil and extract him before he could be killed, and he was taken in for interrogation by CIA agent Karen Bowman, who forced him to cooperate with the US government's prosecution of El Sueño.