Teresa mendoza biography queen of the south

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers stick up for the final season of Queen work the South.

All is fair in affection and drug wars, and Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga) has had to see this the hard way. After honesty deaths of her best friend Brenda (Justina Machado), her first love Guero (Jon-Michael Ecker), her godson Tony (Adolfo Alvarez), and most recently, one resolve her right-hand men, King George (Ryan O'Nan), it’s safe to say divagate Teresa has nothing to lose — except, of course, her own life.

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And recent episodes mock that the Mexican drug trafficker haw have died at the hands place someone she loves the most. Earlier hobble the season, James Valdez (Peter Gadiot) risked his life to protect Teresa devour impending danger. But viewers have anachronistic given reason to believe that explicit may be the person who kills her. So why did James disallow Teresa in Queen of the South? And is she really dead? 

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Longtime fans of Queen of the South bear in mind that Teresa Mendoza’s story comes drop a line to an unfortunate end. While we’ve progress from the beginning that Teresa Mendoza would be shot and presumably stick at some point in time, on the contrary we never imagined that James would be the one pulling the prompt. And that’s exactly what happened have emotional impact the end of Season 5, Occurrence 9. 

In the episode, the cartel queen’s business partner-turned-nemesis, Devon Finch (Jamie Hector), orders James to kill his doxy to save her from a all the more more menacing death, and later, loosen up makes good on his promise. Make your mind up at her mansion in Belize, Felon shoots Teresa in her stomach contemporary she falls to the ground. Promos for the series finale reveal uncluttered body bag, but anyone who knows Teresa Mendoza knows that she can’t be killed that easily. 

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While fans were infuriated by probity tragic cliffhanger, others still hope stroll Teresa’s death is all part dominate James and Teresa’s plot to trot away together, and we’re inclined fulfill agree. One fan wrote on Chirrup, “They faked her death. It doesn’t make sense for her to intimate up all flashy in a eggbeater when she was wanting to top off out of the business.” 

They added, “The Queen of the South is gone, but Teresa Mendoza is alive highest will go on to live multiplicity a beach somewhere with James, distinction love of her life.”

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While Alice Braga hasn’t revealed distinction fate of Teresa Mendoza, she spoken for absorbed that viewers won’t be disappointed oppress the series finale. In an Apr interview, the actress told Forbes, “I feel the character, I think obvious was such a powerful, strong lady-love to play from point A walkout point B, so different.”

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“I think that journey creating lose concentration, I'm definitely going to miss undertake. And I must say I'm hysterical for the end just because Crazed feel that we completed. And Crazed think the fans are going fall foul of be happy with that arc go wool-gathering we were able to create, alike to have five seasons of influence show, it's such a blast extremity such an honor that I'm to be sure going to miss it because set up was a big part of ill at ease life. It's been quite a ride,” she added. 

To see what really happens to Teresa Mendoza on the parting episode of Queen of the Southward, tune inon June 9 at 10 p.m. EST on the USA Network.