
Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator
Behind the Bastards
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The History of Paraguay
Paraguay is landlocked and surrounded by Brazil and Argentina, two countries that are famously not peaceful with their neighbors during the 1800s. So as a result, its early dictators chose wisely to invest very heavily in the army. Unfortunately, Francisco Lopez is he's going to take an ill advised year abroad to Europe.
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