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1962-1975:
The dictatorship of a poor man's Nazi, Alfredo Stroessner, recieves $146 million in US aid, never receiving condemnations for its human rights abuses, the genocide of the indigenous Ache, drug trafficking and open arms policy for ex Nazis until the 1980s. The condemnation shortly precedes a 1988 coup. Stroessner takes exile in Brazil. [1]