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Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards

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The Anti-Communist Regime in Paraguay

Paraguay is the only country that's involved in Condor that the CIA doesn't do any domestic like they don't have to fund any right wing rebel. He has such a hold on power. And as a result, while there's all this chaos in a lot of other parts of Latin America, that's not happening here and our currency is maintaining its value. The month after he takes power in 54 US development aid, De Paraguay increases by 50% between 1954 and 1960. We send advisors and CIA agents into Paraguay to train the police in advanced torture techniques because he's like, we're not good enough at torturing. So you know, it's all worthwhile for

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