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Massacre in Panama is one of the events that happened before Max reach to Brazil to work with Rodrigo Branco. It happened in the Panama Canal where the United Souls of the People (AUP) attack the yacht that Max is stationed to protect a woman. It resulted in the deaths of the yacht occupants with the only survivors being Max Payne, Raul Passos and Marcelo Branco.
Background[]
Before Max Payne becomes a bodyguard, he was wasting his life away in Walton's Bar as he still suffers the loss of his loved ones. This changed when Passos meet up with Max and tried to hire him into private security. Max started the trouble when he shot Tony DeMarco which caused a gunfight between Max and Passos against the wrath of the DeMarco Crime Family. Before they left New Jersey, he visited his wife and daughters grave one last time before being ambushed by the Mafia.
After Max escaped New Jersey, he worked with Passos on private security with one example in the wedding in Aruba. Max enjoyed the work but disliked the people he protect and just tolerate. His next job was to protect a rich divorcee, Daphne Bernstein in a yacht near the Panama Canal.
Little did Max know, there was a lot of suspicious things around in the event that Max was too drunk and busy to noticed. The AUP was tipped by the UFE about the money in the yacht that Passos and Marcelo are smuggling
Event[]
Before the massacre happened, Max was drinking during the party and talk to his friends. He soon went down the boat and passed out from drunkenness.