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Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The Economic Boom of Paraguay

In the 1970s, see an economic explosion as Paraguay finally recovers from both the Chaco War and its decades of instability. Today, I believe the a typo dam is still the most productive hydroelectric power project on the planet. The regime succeeded in not only demobilizing the, but depoliticizing civil society.

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