The Salamanca Cousins

The Salamanca family is a clan of Mexican drug traffickers and hitmen that appears in the television series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

They are known for their extreme cruelty, their absolute loyalty under the motto "family is everything" and their intense rivalry with Gustavo Fring and the Juárez Cartel.

Their criminal dynamics: The Salamanca family operates through fear and intimidation, expanding drug trafficking operations from the border region into the United States. Throughout both series, their story shows how they built their reputation on bloodshed and revenge.

The main members of the Salamanca family are:

Hector Salamanca: The patriarch of the clan, a feared and respected boss who ends up in a wheelchair after a stroke.
Lalo Salamanca: The most astute, charismatic, and intelligent nephew.
Tuco Salamanca: An erratic, violent leader with serious anger issues who operates in Albuquerque.
Leonel and Marco Salamanca (The Cousins): Two twin brothers, hitmen characterized by being silent and lethal.
Joaquin Salamanca and Don Eladio (close associates within the cartel's power structure).

Leonel and Marco Salamanca (known as the Salamanca cousins ​​or simply the Cousins) are twin brothers who work as hitmen for the Juárez Cartel. Despite their austere appearance and virtually nonverbal communication, they are fearsome killers who murder without hesitation or emotion.

They are nephews of Hector Salamanca, who taught them that family is everything (demonstrating this when he tried to drown one of them until the other stopped him). They have two cousins ​​connected to criminal activities, Joaquin and Tuco Salamanca.

The cousins ​​were raised by their uncle, Hector Salamanca. When they were children, Marco broke Leonel's toy, causing Leonel to complain to his uncle and say he wanted him dead. In response, Hector tricked Marco into bending over a tub of ice water to get him a beer and then tried to drown him, asking Leonel if that was what he wanted. Hector continued trying to drown Marco until Leonel finally stopped him by punching him in the nose. Hector reveals to them that he actually did it to show them that "family is everything."

• They believe in Santa Muerte; on one occasion they arrived in a small town in Mexico, joining some inhabitants who crawled on the ground to pay tribute to her.

• Despite appearances, they don't steal easily because of their status. On one occasion, they needed old, worn-out clothes to pass themselves off as immigrants, so they took clothes from a poor family in a village. But in return, without saying a word, they left their luxury suits there, along with the keys and their Mercedes as compensation.

Silence: They rarely speak; their communication is almost nonexistent and very calculated, they only speak Spanish.

Coldness: They kill without hesitation and blindly follow the cartel's orders.

Appearance: They dress in the same menacing style, boots with silver skulls and formal suits, shaved heads and a bit of beard on the chin.

Marco (impulse and emotion): Tends to be slightly more reactive or impulsive at peak moments, such as in confrontation where he reacts with greater aggression or diverts his attention towards civilians.

Leonel (sobriety): Maintains a slightly more restrained and static posture, functioning as the heavy anchor of the duo in the cold execution of orders.