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Character Application and Information Sheet
NS Nation Name: Dentali
Character Name: Alejandro de la Vega
Character Gender: M
Character Age: 58
Character Date of Birth: May 2nd, 1965
Character Position/Role/Job: MP
Character Country/Province of Birth: Tres Rios
Character Province of Residence: Valenzuela
Character Party Affiliation: PLP
Faceclaim: Iván Duque
Main Strengths: Extensive Business and political ties outside the country, Independently wealthy,
Main Weaknesses: Spent most of life outside country
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Born to a middle class family in 1965 his father was a friend and ally to the future dictator Marcelo Mandes and was in his circle of close confidants during the 1972 coup for which he was rewarded with a Deputy Minister of Defense position. Alejandro and his siblings were afforded the best education in the country. When he turned 18 he left the country to attend Harvard Business School, rubbing shoulders with the future business leaders of the world.
His father’s connections, his own business acumen and his newfound friends in the ivy league enabled him to secure a position at JP Morgan in 1988. By 1990 Alejandro had returned to Carbania managing assets of Morgan in the country and in South America more generally. In 1997 the senior de la Vega refused to order his troops to fire on the striking unions, believing they would be able to successfully topple the Government. When the strike failed the De la Vega family fled the country, though a little over half of them were captured and imprisoned, or outright executed.
Alejandro’s connections in the country were his most valuable assets at Morgan, which by ‘97 had made him a millionaire multiple times over, now he was not only significantly diminished as a corporate asset but was an active detriment. Alejandro negotiated with JP and split amicably, and with a generous payout.
He used this wealth and business acumen to found “Vega Consulting & Management”, a global consulting firm, in 1999. The firm became a global success, specializing in countries that had recently emerged from the Iron Curtain. Emerging businesses in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuanian, Hungary, Poland and other similar nations hired the company which helped set up companies throughout Europe and indirectly influenced policy.
De Vega however did not forget his home country and would use his financial power to encourage nations to put international pressure on the murderous regime. Throughout the 2000s he held countless fundraisers with the Carbanian diaspora, gathering financial, political, and moral support. He has also been accused of funding pro-democracy groups in Carbania which were actively combating the dictator, though such accusations were never fully proven.
In 2012, De Vega took early retirement from his Consulting group and focused full time on advocacy, meeting with influential people in the financial, political and entertainment world, rubbing shoulders with Cuban exiles and the Dalai Lama. After the death of the Dictator in 2016, De Vega made a full court press advocating for Democracy, and would soon return from his exile as the tides turned.
In 2018 he formally joined the Party for Freedom and Progress (Partido de Libertad y Progresa) political party, helping fund them and get them off the ground and getting himself elected as an MP and the leader of the party in the legislature.
Other Info: wife and 4 children, oldest daughter now runs the consulting firm.
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