Alejandro Sosa
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| Born | August 4, 1932 (age 74) Cochabamba, Bolivia |
Alejandro Sosa is a fictional character in the 1983 film Scarface. He was portrayed by Paul Shenar.
A powerful drug lord from Bolivia, Sosa resides in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he governs a large cocaine plantation, he owns a drug industry that stretches across the Andes . There he meets up with Tony Montana along with Omar Suarez, who are there to help secure a cocaine transaction on the behalf of Frank Lopez, Tony's boss back in Miami who cannot leave the state due to his upcoming trial. Listening to Omar and Sosa making pointless offers, Tony interrupts, to the extreme displeasure of Omar, and begins to make increasingly demanding offers. Omar, fearing for his life, angrily demands that Tony stop making such outrageous offers without Frank's consent. Sosa, somewhat impressed with Tony's ability to negotiate, agrees with Omar, and supposedly sends him back to Florida. Sosa then explains that Omar was actually an informant, and then gives Tony binoculars to see Omar being thrown out of and hung by the neck on the same helicopter he was flying home.
Sosa sends Tony home, agreeing to the demands of Tony, a deal of 2,000 kilos for $18 million. When Frank hears about this, he is outraged, for he does not have the many millions of dollars it would take to pay Sosa for the cocaine. Tony manages to convince Lopez that he can make money on the side, in case there is not enough money to pay off Sosa.
Later, Tony runs into trouble with tax evasion, and faces up to three years in prison. Sosa invites Tony to his large mansion complex and explains to Tony that he can make sure he doesn't face any prison time, but only if he supervises the assassination of a journalist who is troubling Sosa and his entire drug operation in Bolivia.
Planting a car bomb, Tony and the hitman tail the car with a remote-controlled detonator. They are surprised to see the man's wife and two daughters enter the car with him. Tony, now extremely reluctant to continue with the hit, becomes increasingly agitated with the hitman, until he completely snaps. Tony then murders the hitman who was supposed to kill the journalist.
Sosa, in revenge for the sabotage, has many members of his personal guard sneak into Tony's mansion in the night. They murder Tony, as well as all his armed guards, but not before Tony personally kills a huge amount of them.
Sosa's fate after this is unknown. In the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours, Sosa is alive and well and is then killed by Tony; however, the game is considered non-canon.
[edit] Trivia
- Real life Bolivian drug lord Roberto Suarez was known to frequently boast that the character of Sosa had been modeled after himself.
[edit] Quotes
Sosa speaking to Tony Montana about his cocaine related business:
"I think you and me, we can work this thing out; we do business together a long time. Just remember...I only tell you one time, don't fuck me, Tony. Don't you ever try to fuck me."
Sosa to Tony, on the phone, after Tony killed his hitman in NYC:
"I told you a long time ago, you fucking little monkey, not to FUCK ME!"
