Paz Ortega Andrade

Paz Ortega Andrade is a character who appears in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Early Life
A young Costa Rican girl who cherishes peace. She is studying the nation's Peace Constitution under the guidance of Galvez at the yet-to-be-sanctioned United Nations University for Peace. She's huerfana, her mother had died when she was still very young. She had also lost her grandparents during the Costa Rican Civil War, most likely influencing her passionate hatred of war. Her name, Paz, means "Peace" in Spanish.

Peace Walker
She was held captive by the mysterious armed force, the Peace Sentinels initiating military development in various parts of Costa Rica after she had stumbled upon a supply port facility north of Puerto Limon while she was searching for a lost friend (it is implied in the cutscene on the demo that she possesses scars from her captivity). She later found out that her friend had also been captured, due to accidentally recording a conversation of The Boss on her walkman while Bird Watching. She was able to escape unscathed, although her friend died in the process. After she had shown Galvez the tape, she, alongside Galvez, entreats the "Soldiers Without Borders" to eliminate the armed force and restore peace to the nation.

Unfortunately, Paz eventually ends up becoming insane and becoming ironically nihilistic about Peace, seeing only that there is a win, and there is a loss, and that there is no peace, only an illusion of it. She ends up hi-jacking Metal Gear Zeke, and after explaining the history of The Boss and Big Boss and Zero's respective paths, she has decided to set the coordinates of the launch strike towards the East Coast of the United States, forcing Big Boss to kill Paz.

Trivia

 * Paz's English voice actress, Tara Strong, is the same person who voiced Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
 * Her character song, "Koi no Yokushiryoku", will be included in "Heavens Divide" single. Kojima Productions broadcasted it on air in Hideochannel Radio on February 18, 2010.