
Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator
Behind the Bastards
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The Torture and Murder Stressors
The CIA is backing a dictator in Ohio, but then also cleaning up the land. You have to population's been tortured to death, but the C's cleaner now. The early years of the regime established such a baseline of terror that Paraguay and civil society was comprehensively beaten down. So kind of what happens after he takes power is most people are like, yeah, man, he sucks, but we're not dealing with the civil war every year.
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