Gustavo Miranda Garfias

Gustavo_Miranda_Garfias is the main antagonist of the story "El Chivo y Maru" from the 2000 mexican Oscar nominated film Amores Perros.

Gustavo is a nervous insecure businessman who pays the homeless man and hitman "El Chivo" to kill his partner and half-brother Luis, El Chivo accepts the job but various events make Chivo reconsider the situation and instead of murdering Luis, he kidnaps him and brings him to his house, where Chivo tells him Gustavo commisioned him to kill him, Luis then tells him Gustavo is his half-brother.

Chivo calls Gustavo lying on Luis´s death and tells him to bring the money to his house, when Gustavo arrives Chivo invites him to enter (even though Gustavo didn't wanted to), inside, Chivo leads him to where he keeps Luis tied from the wrists and chest, Gustavo horryfied tells Chivo with a stutterinf voice that killing Luis was his job but Chivo confronts him and gives him the gun ans tells him to kill Luis by himself but he doesn't dare to, then Chivo grabs the gun and point it to Luis and asks Gustavo if he wants him to kill him but Gustavo scared and crying can't say anything, then Chivo points the gun at Gustavo and asks Luis if he wants him to kill him, even though Luis had his mouth covered he implied yes, but Chivo instead knocks Gustavo unconcious, then Chivo steals his money, coat, shirt, sells his and Luis´s cars and ties Gustavo by the foot and straps his chest in front of Luis, he un-ties Luis's wrists not before also stealing his cell-phone and leaves a gun between Gustavo and Luis and then leaves the house to fix his life, Luis and Gustavo stare at the gun and after a while they both fight to reach it with Luis threating Gustavo to kill him, both Luis and Gustavo´s fates are unknown