Born in Mexico, Joaquin Reyes was a childhood friend of Elena Ramos and her brother, Drew.
Elena convinced her parents to take in homeless Joaquin, and he lived with the Ramos family until they left for Dallas, Texas.
After Elena's family moved to Dallas, he left his local Catholic school in Mexico and joined a street gang.
In Mexico, Christopher meets a man who was cheated out of his share of the profits from a drug patent by Nicolas.
Lucia travels to Dallas and confronts Nicolas about his relationship with Elena and blackmails him over his threat to divorce her.
Elena and Nicolas attempt to divide Pamela and John Ross in a new deal Ewing Global is in to purchase oil leases in the Alaskan Arctic.
Nicolas, after telling Elena he wouldn't, sends Pamela a video of John Ross having sex with Emma.
Luis and Nicolas dispose of Drew's body on the oil field where his father died years ago.