Diego Vasquez

Diego Vasquez was a drug lord and narco-terrorist also known for being a surviving test subject of Project V. He appears as a minor character in "Smoke and Mirrors" protagonist of the "Drugdreamer" storyline.

Shortly after his discharge from Project V, he became heavily involved in the production of marijuana and cocaine, which raveled him into association with many organized crime groups in NYC. His unbeatable formulas, popularized by the term "the devil's own" due to the satanic means of production, made him one of the most successful drug producers on the eastern coast of Newmerica. This can also be paired with the fact that Diego was constantly expanding his territory by crippling, metaphorically and literally, rival producers.

He eventually became reluctant about doing business with families who were directly causing harm and chaos to innocent people, which led to him exporting shipments to families that were laced with cyanide. The families were quickly, almost completely wiped out, and the mobsters remaining killed Diego while attempting to escape NYC. This wasn't before he left his production bunker in Victor Moore's name, knowing that Victor was most likely still alive due to the conspiracy surrounding his death. When Victor returned to NYC almost two years later, he took Diego's last wish and re-purposed the bunker as a base of operations for the Argonauts.

While Diego's actions did clear out most major Mafia activity in NYC, he indirectly let up a lot of space for domination for the Blackbloods, partly causing the situation of their overruling dominance of NYC shown in "Power of the Purple Flame".