Santa Blanca made of this fertile valley a vast prison camp.
| Content | Number in Province |
|---|---|
| Main Missions | 6 |
| Side Missions | 8 |
- OperatioN: Security
- Chief: El Pozolero
- Ecosystem: Canyon
San Mateo consists of several canyons located at the foot of the eastern mountains. Due to heavy rains, the vegetation is lush. The economy is based on coffee growing and cattle breeding.
The village of Rosario is the capital of San Mateo. It is also the center of the coffee culture.
This peaceful province was spared by the Santa Blanca. When the rebellion began to manifest in the province of Itacua, residents of San Mateo contacted by emissaries agreed to help it. Wounded people were brought into Rosario for treatment, while food was sent to Itacua.
La Plaga discovered the complicity of the inhabitants of San Mateo. To end it, he occupied the province. Rosario became a jail village. Barbed-wire fences were laid around Rosario. Some sicarios at the entrance of the town watched the comings and goings.
In a maze of narrow canyons, the sicarios captured fleeing villagers. La Plaga got these gorges transformed into a prison in the open air. There are held all residents of San Mateo suspected of complicity with the rebellion. Many other prisoners were sent from other provinces to this jail.
Finally, on the border with Itacua, La Plaga built a wall intended to prohibit any infiltration of the Rebellion to San Mateo. In the base built by the cartel in the north of the province, El Pozolero is the most feared person. He’s in charge of making the bodies of civilians disappear.
The people of San Mateo hope for one thing: a victory of the rebellion.
Raul Murillo, aka El Pozolero (The Stewmaker)
BORN: 04/11/1973 in Durango, Mexico
CARTEL POSITION: Body Disposer
A socially awkward hermit, very shy and self-conscious, El Pozolero has the emotional range of a child. He doesn’t really understand right and wrong.
He worked in construction until he lost his job, then he got hired by the cartel, which taught him how to dissolve bodies when they discovered he had a strong constitution for it.
The cartel delivers dead bodies that need to disappear. Wearing latex gloves and a gas mask, El Pozolero places the bodies in oil drums with caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) then stirs them for about 24 hours until they turn to liquid. He dumps the ‘stew’ and crushes up the remaining bones and teeth.
He’s never really hurt anybody, but has probably melted about 600 bodies.