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The **Stroessner Regime** was a military dictatorship, [sponsored by the
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US](Timeline_of_US_Imperialism "wikilink") that ruled
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[Paraguay](Paraguay "wikilink") from 1954 until it's downfall in 1989.
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It was led by the dictator [Alfredo
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Stroessner](Alfredo_Stroessner "wikilink").
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## Notable Crimes
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### Sheltering Nazis
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Stroessner's Paraguay became a haven for Nazi war criminals, including
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Josef Mengele and Stroessner was an open sympathiser of the Nazis.
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Foreign press often referred to his government as the "poor man's Nazi
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regime". |