Rejinaldo Leonardo Pedro Bolivar de Alencar-Araripe: the relatively stable states of South America viewed the dissolution of the North with horror, and a little gleeful opportunity. As cities from New Los Angeles to BosWash burned from terrorist attacks, the resurgent nation of Hy-Brasil leveraged its swelling population to fill the global power void. Cutting its teeth on dozens of little brushfire conflicts in the Amazon, alternatively fighting tribal separatists, drug cartels, eco-terrorists, illegal poachers and loggers, and regular ecologists alike, and then innumerable favelas and prison riots, the High Brazilian armed forces and militarized police became one of the most experienced and well-organized militaries in the hemisphere. There was no shortage of ex-American ex-military officers and servicemen left behind in Colombia or the Andes who were looking for a new employer- or a new country. Seeking a chunk of the United Nations budget and international prestige, the High Brazilian military was deployed to countless conflict zones of the latter-day Earth, ostensibly as peacekeepers but often bound with loose to none rules of engagement. It was a savage time, and sometimes men must be monsters to defeat monsters. And the man who oversaw all this was Rejinaldo Leonardo Pedro Bolivar de Alencar-Araripe, military commander the country's expeditionary peacekeeping forces, career soldier, and tactics-strategy-logistics extraordinaire. Writer of military tomes, he was renowned for his magnum opus Battle Meditations, written from the pampas of Patagonia amidst the third and final pacification campaign that saw the Lusophones finally establish dominion over the ailing nations of the Southern Cone. During the apogee of High Brazil's nationalist glory and military splendor, there was talk of marching north to secure the Panama Canal while simultaneously landing in the Estados Unidos to bring peace the Hy-Brasilian way. But surprisingly, the government decided to play at peace, and so demanded a place in the Unity mission for services rendered. And so when the project approved the inclusion of a battalion of peacekeepers, there was no substitute but Bolivar.
Bolivar was appointed Force Commander with a rank of Commander on Unity. His role was to maintain the absolute physical security of the colonists on Chiron, while the ship's "civilian" security team would handle situation onboard. Along with his peacekeepers, Bolivar awoke after Planetfall was already in motion. Mobilizing to take arms and to make preparations against the Spartan mutineers, Bolivar discovered that many of the armories had already been ransacked, and not only by the Spartans but by the remaining loyalists of the security team, panicking civilians, Kavithan sectarians, and still others. While he improvised weapons and devised battle plans on the fly, Bolivar quickly saw that the situation was unsalvageable, choosing to protect what was left. The U.N. peacekeepers kept the command staff safe (though Garland was a lost cause, and a failure that Bolivar rues to this day) and launched several valiant incursions against the Spartans, managing to secure storerooms and laboratories for the crew. Regrettable actions had to be taken to ensure calmness was preserved, but Bolivar did what he had to do. At one point during the days-long crisis Bolivar met Santiago face-to-face under parley. The erstwhile colonel mocked his loyalty to a mission that no longer existed, and offered him a place as a generalissimo of the Spartans. But loyal to the end, Bolivar simply asked her to lay down her weapons and accept detention by the rightful authorities, and order her rebels to do the same. The negotiations broke down and the battles continued. In the end, the peacekeepers could not be everywhere at once, and after an unknown group of saboteurs breached the generator room and the ship was doomed to die, Bolivar oversaw the orderly evacuation of the remaining civilians, being among the last to leave.
He serves the Peacekeeping Forces still. Comissioner Pravin Lal is fortunate that the man who commands his peacekeepers is neither mercenary nor zealot, but a poor bluff soldier with a simple conception of loyalty. As his country's government had ordered him to carry out this mission and defend the Unity project, he will continue onwards until those orders are countermanded. There are some who long for their commander to go caudillo and raise the flag of Hy-Brasil, and others descended from other Latin American states who bristle at his authority and conspire of alliances with Santiago to be rid of High Brazil's legacy of internationally-sanctioned imperialism once and all. But the iron will of Bolivar keeps them in line, and ironically the warrior who fought for nationalists is now one of the greatest defenders of the internationalists. While he finds Lal to be often naive and too wrapped up in procedural fine points, he defers to the commissioner's overall plan and finds him to be suitably not a pacifist. While Spartan commandoes have approached him before bearing more invitations to join their cause, Bolivar bristles at the insult- he is no mercenary or pirate, and will not band himself with survivalist rabble squatting in frontier fortresses. Besides, even he has dreams of a future peacetime when the mission is complete. The Peacekeepers themselves, outside of his own peacekeeping forces (this confusing redundancy is yet another consequence of Peacekeeper red tape), are largely soft, but the believes their goals could be accelerated with a firmer hand on the wheel. If Lal was to ever step down, preferably legitimately... well, perhaps then it would be the time for a new jefe to uphold the U.N. Charter.