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Welcome. Welcome to my one-hundred-and-forty-third birthday party.
~ El Patrón
Was that why I fought my way out of Durango? Was that why I built an empire greater than El Dorado's? El Dorado bathed in gold every day. Did you know that? He stood on the porch of his golden house and his servants dusted him with metal until he shone like the sun! His servant worshipped him like a god.
~ El Patrón explaining his aspirations.
During Cinco de Mayo the ranchero had a celebration. I and my five siblings went to watch. Mama brought my little sisters. She carried one, and the other held on to her skirt and followed behind. The mayor of our village - dressed in a fine black and white suit - rode on a white horse and threw money to the crowd. How we scrambled for the coins. How we rolled in the dirt. But we needed the money. We were so poor; we didn't have two pesos to rub together. On this day, the ranchero gave a great feast. We could eat all we want, and it was a wonderful opportunity for people who had stomachs so small that chili beans had to wait in line. On year, during that feast, my little sisters caught typhoid. They were so small; they couldn't look over the windowsill - no, not even if they stood on tiptoe. During the following years, each of my three brothers died; one had a burst appendix, and we had no money for the doctor. The last two brothers were beaten to death by the police. There were eight of us. We should all have grown up, but I was the only survivor. DON'T YOU THINK I'M OWED THOSE LIVES?
~ El Patrón talking about his siblings.

Matteo Alacrán, mostly known as El Patrón, is the main antagonist in the 2002 dystopian novel The House of the Scorpion and the posthumous antagonist of the sequel The Lord of Opium. He is a drug lord and one of the richest people on the planet, being able to force the Mexican and American governments to let him create a country at their border. In order to live longer, he created clones, raised them until he needed them, and then killed them and harvested their organs when he needed them.

Personality[]

He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.
~ Tam Lin on El Patrón.

El Patrón initially seems to be friendly and sympathetic despite being apparently dangerous. He cared for and protected his clone Matt and was one of the only people who didn't hate him for being a clone. He also seemed a little sad, talking about how all of his siblings tragically died while they were children.

This affable personality turns out to be a facade by the end of the book. In reality, El Patrón is a sociopathic, ruthless, selfish monster who doesn't truly care about anyone but himself. He showed no emotion over his numerous crimes other than amusement, and there were no moral boundaries he was not willing to break for his own survival and power. He believed his family to be nothing more than his possessions and took great pleasure in insulting and demeaning them. Even Matt, who he claimed was the most important person in his life, he loved only as an extension of himself, and was still willing to kill him and harvest his organs.

Despite constantly talking about how unpleasant his childhood was, El Patrón had an odd sense of nostalgia. He was willing to go extraordinary lengths to make Opium mimic his childhood and reminisced about it fondly and frequently. In order to turn Opium into the Mexico of the 90s, he inadvertently created the last environmentally healthy place on the planet.

Biography[]

Life[]

Cat got your tongue? It's like the first time we met, when Celia rescued you from the chicken litter. Ah, well. It always comes to this in the end. My clones forget about the wonderful years I give them, the presents, the entertainment, the good food. I don't have to do it, you know.
~ El Patron to Matt while preparing to harvest him for organs.

Childhood[]

Matteo was born in Durango, Mexico in 1990, and he grew up there. His family was very poor, and they never had enough food. He had seven siblings, but they died in various ways, and he was the only one to grow up. Eventually, he left Durango and his dying mother to pursue his destiny as a drug lord.

Rising to Power[]

For a few years, Matteo was married to a woman named Graciela, and had five children with her. Eventually he abandoned her and their four of her children but took his son Felipe with him. For a few years, the two of them lived in the land that would one day become Opium.

Somehow, Matteo grew to be the most powerful drug lord and one of the most powerful people in the world. He and the other drug lords went to the presidents of the United States and Mexico and made a deal with them, telling them that if they let the drug lords create a country on the border, they would stop illegal immigrants and not sell their drugs in North America. The United States and Mexico agreed. The drug lords created the Dope Confederacy, inside of which El Patrón created his country of Opium. During some drug wars around this time, Felipe was killed.

Ruler of Opium[]

In order to create more workers to work their poppy fields, El Patrón began turning the illegal immigrants they caught into eejits; mindless slaves who only did what they were programed to do. El Patrón also created clones of himself, so that he could harvest their organs when his failed and live forever. After about one hundred years of crushing his enemies, murdering clone, enslaving immigrants, and abusing his family, El Patrón finally died of heart failure when it turned out that his clone Matt had had his organs sabotaged and could not be used for transplants.

Legacy[]

I am a cat with nine lives. I've had eight, and you are the ninth.
~ El Patrón as a voice in Matt's head.

When everyone in the Dope Confederacy attended his funeral, it turned out that El Patrón had poisoned the wine that they drank, killing everyone in the country. Shortly thereafter, his clone Matt took over and spent years trying to dismantle the complex drug empire. El Patrón spoke to him as a voice in his who gave him advice.

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The Dope Confederacy
Opium
The Alacráns: El Patrón | El Bicho | Justin Alacrán | Felicia Alacrán | Tom Alacrán
Farm Patrol: Hugh, Ralf, and Wee Wullie | Cienfuegos
Others: Eduardo Rivas | Willum | Rosa
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