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Talía Benavídez
Talía Benavídez is the lead rapper and co-leader of Máximas Matanzas in Valle De Oro. She fights the regime with music and direct action, and she has a personal score to settle with María Marquessa.
- Role
- Supporting
- Affiliation
- Máximas Matanzas
Good to know
- Played by Mercedes Morris, with rapper Gabylonia as her singing voice.
- She leads Máximas Matanzas with her boyfriend Paolo de la Vega.
- She is an old friend of Clara García from Espinosa University and pulled Clara into protest life.
- She was held and tortured at María Marquessa's True Yaran Academy.
- She gives Break the Chains, Re-Education, Guerrilla Radio, Firebrand and Words Like Bullets.
- She carries an A99, a weapon the player cannot get in its basic form.
Who she is
Talía is fierce, proud and quick with words. She says freedom in America does not come in her shade, so she would rather fix Yara than leave it. Her songs are as much a weapon as her rifle.
Where you meet her
You meet her and Paolo when you reach Máximas Matanzas in Valle De Oro. She drives most of that region's operations, aimed squarely at María's propaganda machine and her academy.
Role in the storySpoilerShow
After escaping the academy with Paolo's help, Talía hates María more than anyone. In Words Like Bullets she confronts María and shoots her on live television.
Meet Máximas MatanzasMeet Máximas Matanzas opens the Valle De Oro storyline, where you race the FND to find a band of rebel artists and free their leader Talía. It introduces the Máximas Matanzas and sets up their camp as your regional base.
Break the ChainsBreak the Chains is the fourth Valle De Oro operation. Talía Benavídez sends you into the Castillo National Zoo to free prisoners the regime keeps there. You also earn the Mogote Zebra.- Re-EducationRe-Education is a Valle De Oro operation where Talía sends you to break Dr. Matías Alonso out of the True Yaran Academy. You then keep him alive while he works and defend the academy from the FND.
- Guerrilla RadioGuerrilla Radio is a Valle De Oro operation where you seize Marquessa Villa for a Máximas Matanzas broadcast. Then you defend the speakers, antenna and lights while the regime tries to shut the show down.
FirebrandFirebrand is a Valle De Oro operation for Talía Benavídez and Máximas Matanzas. You wreck María Marquessa's trucks and billboards, hit her rum distillery and topple a statue of Antón Castillo.- Words Like BulletsWords Like Bullets is a Valle De Oro operation where you and Talía join a tour of the Botanical Gardens of Yara to confront propaganda star María Marquessa. You shake off a military tail on the way.
Valle De Oro OperationsThe Valle De Oro operations team Dani with Máximas Matanzas, a guerrilla group of young artists and activists in central Yara. María Marquessa and Édgar Reyes run the region.
Related characters
- Image: UbisoftAntagonist
María Marquessa
María Marquessa is Yara's Minister of Culture and the glamorous face of Antón Castillo's regime. She is one of the main villains of Valle De Oro, and she runs the True Yaran Academy where dissidents are broken.
- Supporting
Matías Alonso
Matías Alonso is the doctor who treats the wounded of Máximas Matanzas in Valle De Oro. He lost his medical licence for treating Outcasts, and you break him out of the True Yaran Academy so he can work for the resistance.
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Paolo de la Vega
Paolo de la Vega is one of the two leaders of Máximas Matanzas, the music-driven rebel group of Valle De Oro. He makes the beats while his girlfriend Talía raps, and his army past makes him the group's tactician.
- Supporting
Paz "Bicho" Duarte
Paz "Bicho" Duarte is the third member of Máximas Matanzas and its loud, eager sidekick. An underground DJ from Mexico, he hands out several of the Valle De Oro missions and handles the group's radio stunts.