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Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The Trial of Gladys Saniman and Augustin Guiburo

Gloria Borger: Coranelle Cornell was an admirer of the world's greatest torture experts at the time, which was the US police. She says that through Operation Condor, the FBI kept abreast of whenever Paraguay and dissidents would pop up in surrounding countries with right-wing dictatorships allied with the US. Borger: This gives you an idea of how tough it is to be any kind of dissident in South America at this time. They're like running as fast as they can, always just ahead of the next US-backed military coup.

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