Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands Wiki Guide


To break down the Production of the Santa Blanca cartel in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, you'll need to defeat a total of five cartel bosses before you can pursue the Smuggling underbosses. Each of the cartel leaders must be killed before you can initiate additional missions for the cartel underbosses.

To defeat the smaller bosses, you need to gather the key intel located in various locations marked on your map to find out more about their operation. Once you have enough intel to discover their location, you must go to the new marker on your Tac Map and eliminate your target.

  • El Emisario
  • Madre Coca
  • Marcus Jensen
  • El Wey

Related Achievements and Trophies

Shut Down
Completed the Production operation

La Gringa


The underboss you must located and eliminate before reaching El Yayo is La Gringa. After you start the mission and reach the location of La Gringa on your map, you'll have to infiltrate a building with a pool area and gate.

There will be enemies blocking off the front gate to the building. They are fighting with the local Rebels in the area, which you can use to your advantage. Either as a distraction or as allies in open combat.

The best way to appraoch the building is to move in from the far side, opposite of the front gate, where a pool is located. Its much closer to the door you need to enter and reach La Gringa, and will have less enemies nearby.

Make your way into the area, killing enemies as you progress, and enter the building. You'll have to go to the bottom level of the building, down the stairs into the basement area.

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Find La Gringa, and have her follow you back outside. Either call a helicopter or enter a car and begin moving to your next destination. You need to reach the area within a time limit because La Gringa is bleeding out. Using a helicopter is the easiest way to reach the destination before time runs out.

If you can't call a helicopter, then you can find one on the far side of the area where you find La Gringa, but you'll have to fight the large group of enemies nearby.

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When you reach the destnation, speak with the doctor. You'll have to protect the area from enemies for a short time. A timer will begin counting down, if you're alive when it reaches zero, you'll be able to continue the mission. There will be armored cars that appraoch from in front and on the side of the area. Use grenades and machine guns to defeat the enemies coming in.

You may have an enemy helicopter enter the area, so use your weapons to take it down quickly if you see it arrive. If you placed explosives on the ground and detotnated them as enemies began arriving into the area, you'll have significantly less problems to deal with.

Once you hold back the enemy forces long enough. Go back inside to La Gringa and order her follow you to a nearby helicopter. There will be one close by if you can't call your own. You won't have any more enemies to fight.

Fly over to your next destination marked on your map and extract La Gringa to watch a cutscene and complete the mission.

El Yayo


You can begin the mission to defeat El Yayo once you have completed the mission La Gringa beforehand. You need to locate El Yayo within a large building that is heavily guarded.

Use your drone to scan the entire area and mark off enemies that are on the outside perimeter of the building. You should see a number of guards on the left and right sides, with a few in near the front gate close to a few cars.

There are also enemies inside the building however, which are harder to mark off with your drone. You can move around to peer through the windows and mark them off, however if you get close you'll alert everyone in the area.

El Yayo is found inside on the bottom floor of the building, near the front entrance. If you alert any of the guards, he'll immediately run out and grab one of the cars to flee the area. You can't let El Yayo die, otherwise you'll fail the mission and will have to start over.

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If you're approaching the target with stealth, start by taking out the guards outside with stealth, using Sync Shot as needed with your squad. You can also run up and melee enemies quickly if you aren't able to use Sync Shot while remaining hidden. This will dwindle the number of enemies once the area is alerted.

You can approach the house from the back side and peer around corners to take out enemies, but be careful not to stand in front of the windows, otherwise you'll be spotted. You can crouch or prone below the windows to avoid being detected.

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Eliminate enough enemies before proceeding into the building and grabbing El Yayo. He'll crouch on the ground if you're able to get to him without being spotted or taking out all of the guards. When you have your target, you can either call in a helicopter to escape, or grab one of the nearby cars to stow El Yayo and escape the area. You'll have to move to the new extraction point marked on your map.

If you've left any enemies alive nearby or alerted anyone before grabbing El Yayo, there will be cartel soldiers that pursue you as you head to the extraction.

Once you arive at your destination, extract El Yayo at the building door and watch the cutscene play, however the mssion isn't over yet! You'll be tasked with finding and rescuing El Yayo's family in a nearby village. Head out to the new destination marked on your map.

You can either drive or fly in a helicopter over there, but make sure you get out of your vehicle far enough to not alert the groups of enemies near the area.

El Yayo's family is located in a building towards the center of your marker, downstairs in a prison cell, there will be a helicopter outside of the building. You'll have to move through the village to the building, while taking out enemies that are on patrol.

Use your drone to mark off their positions before proceeding, and eliminate the enemies in your way. You can slip by some enemies unnoticed if you use the buildings and walls as cover while moving, but be aware of snipers that can spot you from high vantage points on the buildings.

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Within the area, you can find cages of Rebel soldiers that you can release to cause a distraction. This will allow you to quickly move into the buildings without be fired at by enemies, as well as allow you to escape when needed. When you reach the building with El Yayo's family, shoot the lock on the door and order them to follow you.

Use the nearby helicopter to escape when you have them and fly to the extraaction point on your map. Go to the door to extract them and watch the cutscene to complete the mission.