Miguel

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Type	CHARACTER
Miguel
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Voiced by	Al Espinosa (GTA III) Unknown (GTA Liberty City Stories)
Biographical information
Full name	Miguel
Nationality	Colombian
Status	Deceased
Place of birth	Colombia
Date of death	2001
Home	Liberty City
Main affiliation	Catalina (Formerly) Colombian Cartel (Co-leader)
Vehicle(s)	Cartel Cruiser Patriot Stallion Banshee
Businesses	Drug dealing
Physical description
Gender	Male

“

I'm sorry about the crazy bitch, amigo. They're all the same!

”

— Miguel

Miguel was a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a main character and the tertiary antagonist of Grand Theft Auto III (set in 2001) and a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (set in 1998).

Miguel is co-leader of the Colombian Cartel along with Catalina, and is involved in the gang's narcotics trade.

Biography

Background

Miguel is born in Colombia and at some point prior to 1998 moves to Liberty City, joining the Colombian Cartel, becoming a prominent member of the gang.

Events of GTA Liberty City Stories

Miguel frequently sells drugs from Portland Harbor to the Leone Family and meets Toni Cipriani in a deal in 1998 that is later ambushed by the Liberty City Police Department. Toni Cipriani seemingly kills Miguel, who manages to survive. He continues to climb the ranks of the Cartel and, following the death of Cisco, becomes one of the gang's co-leaders.

Events of GTA III

In 2001 he meets Catalina and Claude as they arrive in the city and helps them rob a bank as their getaway driver. After Catalina shoots Claude and leaves him for dead, Miguel escapes the police with Catalina. Catalina and Miguel begin to increase the gang's influence in the city by stepping up the production of the drug SPANK from a freighter in Portland Harbor and also begin to work against the Leone Family, exchanging Leone secrets for SPANK with barman Curly Bob. Their operations, however, are stopped by Claude who, on orders from Don Salvatore Leone, kills Curly Bob and then destroys the freighter containing the SPANK factory.

Claude, after moving to Staunton Island, begins to work for Donald Love, first rescuing the Old Oriental Gentleman from the Cartel. Love later sends Claude to collect a package from an incoming plane at Francis International Airport and later has him return to collect the real package, having previously sent Claude to collect decoy packages. The package, however, has already been collected by Miguel and Catalina. Claude goes to a construction site in Fort Staunton and confronts Miguel and Catalina. Miguel hands the package to Claude but is shot by Catalina, who jumps down into a skip to escape.

Death

Asuka Kasen, enraged following the death of her brother Kenji at the hands of a "Cartel assassin" (really Claude disguised as a Cartel member), begins to torture Miguel for information on the Cartel's operations. After extracting information from Miguel, Asuka then sends Claude to stop the Cartel operations, which includes killing three Cartel hit squads, destroying the Kappa Coffee House stands (which were a front to sell SPANK) and destroying a plane and collecting the SPANK packages inside. After collecting the SPANK packages, Claude returns to the construction site and finds Asuka and Miguel dead, with Miguel impaled on a construction pole, with a note addressed to Claude attached to his body.

Mission Appearances

GTA III

• Introduction (Betrayal)
• Cutting the Grass
• Grand Theft Aero
• Bait
• Espresso-2-Go!
• S.A.M. (Killed off-screen)
• Ransom (Corpse)

GTA Liberty City Stories

• Contra-Banned

Gallery

Game art of Miguel in GTA III.

Miguel in his final form in GTA III.

Miguel in his final form in GTA Liberty City Stories during "Contra-Banned".

Miguel in the LCS Beta

Trivia

• In the beta, at the introduction cutscene he would say: Catalina! Move your ass! [1].
• Miguel might have urinated in his pants during the torture as Maria says "What is that gooey yellow stuff?" in the beginning cutscene of S.A.M..
• Miguel in GTA LCS beta looked more like his GTA III appearance.
• Miguel is one of only three antagonists in the GTA Series to be introduced before the protagonist. As in the Introduction, he is first seen driving a Banshee towards the Liberty City Bank, and later, the game shows Claude destroying a security camera with a Pump Action Shotgun. The others are Catalina from the same game, and Sonny Forelli from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
• Miguel, Ryder, and Rocco Pelosi are the only antagonists who did not directly attempt to kill the protagonist.

Navigation

Navigation

Template:GTA III Characters Template:GTA Liberty City Stories Characters [ v • e ]Colombian Cartel Gangsters Cisco (Leader, deceased) | Catalina (Leader, deceased) | Miguel (deceased) Associates People: Avery Carrington (deceased) | Claude (former) | King Courtney | Mike (former) Gangs: Liberty City Triads | Uptown Yardies Enemies People: Asuka Kasen (deceased) | Kenji Kasen (deceased) | Claude | Toni Cipriani | Maria Latore | Mike | Salvatore Leone (deceased) Gangs: Leone Crime Family | Yakuza Fronts Airline company | Butchers company | Cartel Mansion | Freight business | Panlantic Construction Company Turf Liberty City: Fort Staunton | Cedar Grove | Francis International Airport (former) Other Cartel Cruiser