Gustavo "Gus" Fring es un respetado filántropo chileno que vive en Albuquerque y es dueño de una exitosa cadena de restaurantes, Los Pollos Hermanos, utilizada como tapadera para una red de distribución de metanfetamina en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.
Poco se sabe acerca del pasado de Gus, excepto que su origen es Chile y está conectado a la empresa alemana Madrigal Electromotive. Mike, su hombre de confianza, es el único que quizás sepa algo más sobre la vida de Gus, además de Don Eladio. Mike asegura a Gus que si él no pudo averiguar nada sobre su vida anterior al año 1989 (el año en el que Fring emigró a México, y posteriormente a los Estados Unidos), la DEA tampoco lo hará.
Little is known about Fring's past. He was born in Chile and emigrated to Mexico in 1986 during the reign of Augusto Pinochet.With his longtime friend and partner, Maximino Arciniega ("Max"), Gus started a chicken restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos. Max was murdered by the Juárez cartel, leading Gus to emigrate to the United States in 1989, where he re-established Los Pollos Hermanos as a chain of fast-food restaurants. Using his restaurants' supply chain as a front, Gus began distributing drugs in the American southwest on behalf of the cartel, an operation that eventually grew to encompass methamphetamine.
Gus claims to have children, yet they have never been seen and little else about his family life has been revealed. It is implied that Fring may be using an alias; neither Hank nor Mike can find any record of his existence before his arrival to Mexico. Don Eladio, the cartel's leader, mentions that he spares Gus' life only because he knows who Gus is, and warns him that he "isn't in Chile anymore"; in a flashback scene, Hector Salamanca mockingly refers to him as "Grand Generalissimo". Gilligan has stated that he purposely left Gus' origin ambiguous, comparing it to the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Gus drives a Volvo V70, stating that he chose it for its "safety record".
15 окт 2012
