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In the 1950s-80s, the CIA supported a right-wing dictator in Paraguay, general Alfredo Stroessner, an anti-communist pedophile who sheltered Nazis (notably Josef Mengele), established an indigenous slave trade (with the Aché people as the main victims), suppressed worker revolts, and forcibly disappeared at least 336 people as part of Operation Condor. The United States government provided extensive financial aid to Stroessner's government: "From 1947 until 1977, the United States supplied about USD 750,000 worth of military hardware each year and trained more than 2,000 Paraguayan military officers in counterintelligence and counterinsurgency." (Paraguay, a country study).