Baptiste inherited the decaying remains of his father's drug empire when the elder Garcia was killed in a CIA-backed terrorist attack. Educated at the best American universities, Garcia set about restructuring his father's criminal enterprise from the ground up with a vigor which utterly surprised those of his father's associates who expected the well-educated and manicured only son to salvage what he could he spend the rest of his life in luxury. They were even more startled when he proved to be a natural leader and adept businessman.
One of Baptiste's defining principles was that there was no reason to act like a criminal just because his product was illegal. Professional, polite, eloquent, and effective, he was spared much of the worst attention of the criminal justice agencies merely because he didn't use brutality if was a legal, straightforward means to achieve his end. His manner impressed many, including the new Lasombra Bishop of New Orleans, who needed a means to compete with the Serpents but disliked mucking about with the sorts of disreptable folks they generally dealt with. Here, however, was a man he could relate to.
A few years after taking notice of the man, it reached Delacroix through channels that the drug lord had just been diagnosed with inoperable cancer and only had a few more years to live. Seeing a golden opportunity, he made arrangements to meet the man and, without embellishment, offered him the Embrace. Garcia took very little time to ponder the decision and returned with the answer that he would accept the proposition, but only after living out the rest of his mortal life. Delacroix agreed and Garcia was left to be with his family for thirty monthes before being forced into hospitalization. A day later, once arrangements had been made, he received his immortality and relocated to the States, taking with him only his closest man.
Since then, Garcia has been doing to the Lasombra criminal operations (such as they were) what he did to his father's and the Serpents are growing more and more openly hostile towards him as he takes over. He is adjusting well to his new existence, but is still maintaining the illusion to his business contacts that he merely faked his death to avoid criminal persecution, so as to continue to take advantage of his former contacts. So far, the ruse has been successful, but the newly arrived SAD agents may spell the end to it.
Baptiste is a highly organized man, with a nearly compulsive drive to perfection. In other circumstances, he may have been a masterful engineer, or scientist, but he'd approach them in much the same manner as he does crime. Rational and realistic but still deeply principled, he is a drug lord with a work ethic, and it has served him well.
In person, he is polite, professional to a fault, and perfectly frank. He does lie, but never in a gratuitous or blatant manner, and only when he can justify it to himself. He is loathe to use his disciplines and generally reserves them to force an employee or other underling to comply with his orders rather than to gain an advantage when dealing with equals.
Baptiste's most trusted companion and confidante is his right-hand man, Remy. He relies on the man to watch his back and trusts him implicitly. Otherwise, he has very few illusions about the trustworthiness of those around him. He is willing to give tit for tat, though. So long as someone's dealt with him honestly, he will do the same. As soon as they cross the line, though, he won't deal with them again and will do his best to see that nobody else does, either.
He respects his sire, but is wary of his somewhat lax ethics, particularly given the state of his grandsire. Even moreso, he keeps a close eye on the other Bishops, especially Legba, whom he sees as a petty, single-minded tyrant not above destroying the childe of his presumed ally, should he cross the right line. Personally, he has no emnity towards the Serpents other than a mild disdain for the way they do business. He sees his success at their expense merely as capitalism at work and wishes they were professional enough not to take it personally and act like savages.
Baptiste misses his family, when he allows himself to think about it, and occasionally takes a sabbatical to return to Columbia and spy on his children, to see how they fare. He set up a very thorough structure to care for them after his death and has several lawyers sending him status reports so that he knows that everything is well with them.
He pays little mind to most of the other kindred in the city, as they have no real effect on his business and, hence, his day to day affairs. He finds the Samedi intriguing but ultimately little more than odd anachronistic monsters, and he merely shakes his head at the Krewe of Rex and their weakness. He has a bit of respect for Beranger Prejean, merely because the man is straightforward about the way he does business and the two have a good working relationship, on those rare occasions when their interests cross paths.
Baptiste is still somewhat unsure where he stands on the sect division, a subject he has enough sense to keep quiet about after the requisite rant about Lafitte he received shortly after his Embrace. His sympathies might be for the more formal Camarilla were it not for his criminal background, which makes him identify the sect more with the authorities. The Sabbat, as the more criminal sect, seems a bit more comfortable for him, at least at the moment.
Speaking of which, Lafitte and Baptiste have an almost friendly rivalry going in their competition to control the trade, legal and otherwise, in the Gulf. There is a mutual respect between the men that would bother Baptiste's sire if he knew. The two haven't met in person, though, thus far they have only sparred on the field of international trade. However, they have become quite adept at scenting the other in their business dealings.
Lastly, he has had contact with Alex Greyson on several occasions and his willingness to do business with the Giovanni is something he has avoided bringing up with his sire and has given him a bit of an edge in the war over gulf shipping.
Baptiste has extensive criminal contacts throughout the Americas and in Japan and even parts of Europe. Not just in the drug trade, but any sort of black market enterprise. A consumate capitalist, he will deal with buyers and sellers, no matter what the goods, so long as his contacts act in a professional manner. When they don't, they soon find that their ability to do business is hampered greatly.