User blog comment:Damac1214/Sledgehammer Interested in Female Leads for Future Call of Duty Titles, Have Already Started Pre-Production for Call of Duty: 2017/@comment-3452233-20150207054343/@comment-3967954-20150213231957

Actually, Menendez didn't hate Americans; he had a lot of support with the American public, and some of his Mercs were American. He hated the American government for killing his father, destroying his drug empire and helping the Panamanians invade his land and kill his people. He hated capitalism because his sister died as a result of it being abused and he was left in poverty. His life was effectively destroyed by capitalism and the CIA. This was all explained in the game.

Admittedly, he went a bit overboard and I don't understand why he'd still have support in the US after his forces pretty much destroyed LA, but there you go. He was a decent villain for a CoD game, much more so than Makarov or Dragovich ever were.