Alejandro Sosa

Scarface (1983)

Alejandro Sosa is presented in the film as a Bolivian landowner, hailing from a rich family, educated in England and currently the business brain and drug overlord of an empire that stretches across the Andes region. He is immensely wealthy and has wide-reaching political and criminal connections, both in Latin America and in the United States.

Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia) sends Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Omar Suárez (F. Murray Abraham) to Bolivia to make a drug deal with Sosa, who asks them to guarantee the buying of a certain amount of cocaine every month. During the business lunch, Tony and Omar argue when Tony tries to negotiate a deal without Frank’s authorization. Alberto “The Shadow,” one of Sosa’s henchmen, recognizes Suárez and his prior role as a police informant, and notifies Sosa. Sosa sends Suárez back to Miami, but keeps Tony behind to continue the luncheon. Sosa then has Alberto and his other henchman “The Skull” beat and hang Suárez to death from a helicopter, which Tony witnesses. Sosa states Suárez was a police informant years ago and was responsible for the imprisonment of Vito Duval and the Ramos Brothers (Nello and Gino). Sosa then questions Tony if he is a “chivato” (informant) like Suárez was, but Tony gives a heart-spoken response and tells Sosa he never liked or trusted Suárez. Sosa is impressed with and earns respect for Tony’s honesty and straightforward demeanor. Despite Sosa telling Tony that Frank has poor judgment for having someone like Omar Suárez under his employ, they both agree that if Suárez was able to fool Lopez, he could’ve fooled anyone. Tony promises to smooth things with Frank, and Tony and Sosa begin their partnership, but not before Sosa delivers a dire warning to Tony never to screw him. When Lopez hears of the developments, he is furious Tony made a large deal with Sosa without his approval, refuses to believe that Omar was a "stoolie" and even suspects that Tony has some ulterior motives. Lopez and Tony separate after the argument and Tony continues flirting with and proposing marriage to Lopez's girlfriend Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer). When Lopez becomes aware of Tony's aspirations regarding Elvira, he sends two hitmen to have him killed. The plan backfires and Tony kills the two hitmen. Tony then goes to Lopez and has his right-hand man Manny kill Lopez and Tony then kills Mel Bernstein, a corrupt police detective after Lopez confesses to hiring the hitmen to kill Tony. Tony becomes a drug lord in Miami and for a while, enjoys a period of mutual business prosperity with Sosa.

When Tony is arrested for tax evasion, Sosa invites him to Bolivia and offers to use his government contacts to keep Tony from going to prison. However, Sosa tells Tony he would still have to pay back taxes and a large fine. In exchange, Tony is to assassinate a journalist who is threatening to expose Sosa's illicit activities. Tony agrees and heads to New York City with Sosa's henchman Alberto, planning to detonate a bomb in the journalist's car in front of the U.N. Building. However, the journalist is unexpectedly accompanied by his wife and children, causing Tony to call off the hit unless the journalist is killed alone. Alberto refuses, reminds Tony of Sosa’s instructions, and intends to detonate the bomb. Tensions increase between Tony and Alberto, culminating in Tony shooting Alberto in the head. Later, when Tony returns to Miami, Sosa calls him to inquire what happened during the hit as the journalist delivered his exposé. Tony tries to shift blame on Alberto, but Sosa doesn’t buy it and tells Tony he and his partners are pissed off. Tony nonchalantly tells Sosa they’ll try again next month, but Sosa says it’s now impossible as the car bomb was found, the journalist is now heavily protected, and the heat will come down hard on Sosa and his partners. Further infuriated, Sosa profanely tells Tony there won’t be a next time, reminds Tony of his earlier warning not to screw him, and hangs up the phone, ending their association. Sosa sends his assassins to Montana's home to finish him. Despite the casualties he inflicts, Montana is ultimately killed in the attack when "The Skull" sneaks up behind him, and shoots Montana in the back with a double-barrel shotgun, causing him to fall into the fountain with the symbolic "The World Is Yours" globe sign above it. This is notably similar to the final scene of the original Scarface film.

Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006)

In the 2006 action-adventure video game Scarface: The World is Yours, the ending of the film treatment was altered to establish that Tony won the climactic battle against Sosa's men, escaping before the police showed up, although Sosa had succeeded in ending Tony's drug empire. Tony quits using cocaine and the game focuses on Tony's efforts to rebuild his old drug empire on the ashes of his old one and to exact revenge upon Sosa.

Sosa is not seen (though his voice is heard through much of the game) until the final mission where he held a meeting with Gaspar Gomez and George Sheffield regarding the fact that Tony has taken over all of Miami and is now after them. Montana confronts Sosa in his living room after killing Gomez and Sheffield, and wiping out Sosa's men in his mansion in Bolivia. Sosa tells Montana he warned him not to betray him, but Montana did, referring to the incident with the journalist in the film. Sosa says that in their business, sometimes children have to be killed, particularly so "heroes don't go on 60 Minutes", referring to the journalist who on national TV named him and many of his allies as reputed drug traffickers. Montana then executes Sosa by shooting him 30 times with an AK-47 (with an under-barrelled Remington 870), unloading the entire magazine, and leaving his bullet-riddled corpse slumped against his couch. Tony Montana heads back to Miami, Florida where he proceeds to celebrate his control of the city's drug trade, Sosa's assassination, and the destruction of Sosa's drug empire.