Rudolfo Yana, or El Yayo, is one of the secondary antagonists of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands. He is the head of production for the Santa Blanca Cartel, as well as one of the highest-ranking Bolivians in the trafficking orginization. He is a man willing to work with anyone to protect his people. Some would call him a traitor, but others would define him as a true survivor. He is in charge of supervising the flow of factories and the cocaine paste and purification in their many labs around Bolivia, but mostly in the province of Ocoro. He is also the grandfather of El Emisario.
Biography[]
El Yayo was born in Bolivia in 1945, the son of two cocalero farmers. When he was old enough he started working in the coca fields. He was known as one of the best coca farmers in Bolivia and some would've even said the world. But he always vowed to never produce cocaine. But this oath was broken when a US army operation to torch the coca fields went into play and left El Yayo and his people with no work. This gave him no choice but to produce cocaine. These turn of events caused El Yayo to become one of the most major drug lords that South America has ever seen. These actions caught the eye of Santa Blanca's leader El Sueño who brought him into the orginization to control their production operations.
Operation: Kingslayer[]
With the Cartels factories and labs being attacked and having key personnel being taken out by the Ghost Recon team, this had caused the quality of the cocaine to decrease, annoying Sueño. This caused La Gringa, the head chemist of the Cartel, to be extracted by Ghost Recon from Bolivia due to run-in with a Santa Blanca hit squad. This left El Yayo under alot of pressure and was caught lowering the quality of the cocaine. Sueño then had Yayo placed under house arrest. This prompted a rescue from Ghost Recon. But El Yayo refused to talk until they had saved his family from the cartel. After Nomad and his team rescued them, El Yayo told them everything he knew about the cartel's production plans and operations, leaving the cartel's production operations in shambles.