Alejandro Rojas

"I've got a visual on Rojas! He's cutting through the market!"

- Ghost

Alejandro Rojas, Alias Alex the Red , was an arms dealer in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was protected by the local militia. He was also a contact and armorer of Makarov, which is the reason he attracted the attention of Task Force 141.

Military history
According to information in the cutscene before Takedown, Rojas began his career as a low level munitions clerk for the KGB, but quickly worked his way up the career ladder. Rojas oversaw overseas connections with the Far East and South American trades, a buffer between government and mercenaries trading in all levels of weaponry.

Rojas then went freelance in 1997, where he went off the grid for many years, and was thought to be involved with many terrorist organizations. He is eventually pursued and captured by the Task Force 141 and Soap tackles him out of a building, and smashed a below car, and interrogated for information on Makarov. The Task Force leaves him for dead, with Captain MacTavish saying that "The streets will take care of him."

Associates

 * His assistant
 * Vladimir Makarov

Trivia

 * His name, Alejandro Rojas, is actually a Spanish name, not a Portuguese name. However, he isn't Brazilian himself, so he probably came from another country in Latin America (probably Cuba since he had ties with the KGB, and his nickname is 'the Red').
 * In the beginning of the level "The Hornet's Nest", before moving uphill with Soap and Ghost, they can see Rojas tied up to a steel fenced window with electrical plugs attached to him, showing he was tortured, he is still alive although the player can shoot and kill him.
 * "Alex the Red" is actually a rough translation of "Alejandro Rojas" but it wouldn't be correct since "Rojas" is a last name.
 * Even though in the mission, Soap and Ghost say he must be unharmed, yet Soap tackles him out of a second story window. This would cause severe physical trauma, concussions and fractures included, but there would be no open wound from which he could have bled to death from. Also, desperate times called for desperate measures, a pattern which is repeated throughout the campaign.