Diego and Armando Mendez: Difference between revisions

|image = Armando&DiegoMendez-GTAVCS.jpg

|caption = Diego (right) and Armando Mendez (left) in GTA Vice City Stories

|family = Eachother <small>(brothers)</small>

|affiliations = [[Victor Vance]] <br> [[Lance Vance]] <br> [[Reni Wassulmaier]] <br> [[Jerry Martinez]] <br> [[Mendez Cartel]] <br> [[Bryan Forbes]] <br> [[Domestobot]]

'''Diego and Armando Mendez''' are the two most powerful drug kingpins and well known philanthropists in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]] circa 1984, and the heads of their own crime organization, The [[Mendez Cartel]] when the events of [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]] takes place. The voice actor for Diego is Ruben Trujillo, while Armando is voiced by Yul Vasquez. It is unknown if they're related to [[T-Bone Mendez]].

In GTA Vice City Stories, Diego and Armando are first mentioned in mission [[Brawn of the Dead]] by [[Jerry Martinez]], telling Vic Vance that the shipment of coke that [[Victor Vance]] and his brother Lance had stolen from them belonged to the Mendez Brothers.

Later, Diego and Armando have Vic and Lance brought to them, where they tell them Martinez stole the shipment, and [[The Mugshot Longshot|use some pictures of Martinez with the cops and a fake license to prove this to the Mendez's]]. Vic and Lance keep working for the Mendez brothers until they decide to take over all of the Vance's businesses by dumping them in a burning oil storage and leaving them for dead.

Vic and Lance escape the burning oil storage and seek protection from [[Ricardo Diaz]], who eventually helps them [[Domo Arigato Domestoboto|destroy the Mendez brothers' bonds]] with a [[Domestobot]]. In revenge for the destruction of their bonds, Armando has [[Louise Cassidy-Williams]], Victor's girlfriend kidnapped, in the process of rescuing Louise, Lance is heavily injured, and Louise is killed by Armando Mendez. A vengenceful Vic then confronts a flamethrower wielding Armando and guns him to death.

Diego, after hearing his brother was killed, seeks refuge in his compound in [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]]. Then Vic Vance, with the help of Ricardo Diaz and [[Phil Cassidy]], [[Over The Top|steals]] a [[Hunter]] helicopter and uses it to raid the compound. He is eventually shot down, but [[Last Stand|makes it]] to the compound and after slaughtering many of Diego's men, confronts Diego in the compound's roof. There they are joined by Jerry Martinez and a final confrontation starts where Victor manages to kill both Martinez And Diego for good.

Diego is the more quiet of the two and only speaks Spanish, while the more charismatic Armando is the one with greater control of the organization. [[Reni Wassulmaier]] implies that he/she had relations with Diego. They also own a Domestobot, which was destroyed by Armando when Victor took control of it and destroyed his bonds.

 

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File:ArmandoMendez-GTAVCS-artwork.jpg|Artwork of Armando Mendez.

File:DiegoMendez-GTAVCS-artwork.jpg|Artwork of Diego Mendez.

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* [[The Mugshot Longshot]] <small>(Bosses) </small>

* [[Hostile Takeover]] <small>(Bosses) </small>

* [[Unfriendly Competition]] <small>(Bosses) </small>

* [[High Wire]] <small>(Bosses) </small>

* [[Burning Bridges]] <small>(Bosses) </small>

* [[Light My Pyre]] <small>(Armando killed) </small>

* [[Last Stand]] <small>(Diego killed) </small>

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