Rodrigo Mendoza
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Rodrigo Mendoza is a fictional character, portrayed by Robert De Niro, in the movie The Mission written by Robert Bolt.
He was a slave trader and mercenary who killed his brother in a sudden duel. He isolated himself (he was untouchable by law, because his brother had asked him to duel) before his meeting with Father Gabriel, who was building a mission to convert the Guarani tribe to Catholicism. Later he followed Father Gabriel to the mission and became a Jesuit monk. At the end of the movie, he and the other Jesuits, as well as most of the Guarani tribe, were killed by a Portuguese invasion.
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