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Part Two: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards

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The Bay of Pigs

"We're bad at this, like we usually are when we try to do coups," he says. "It's just no one's priority ... We can't let them go to the crime." The Bay of Pigs was a failure because there wasn't enough focus on follow-up after guns were handed over by Eisenhower and then Kennedy. He adds: "Everybody in the JFK administration is on fuckloads of amphetamines right now"

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