How a Nazi French Mobster Made Paraguay a Smuggler's Paradise

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https://www.righteousfelon.com/ Promo code: underworld25 In 1968, a gang of smartly-dressed gangsters robbed a bank in Buenos Aires. The fallout from the raid would lead authorities in all kinds of crazy directions — from French paramilitary hitmen to mobsters belonging to the feared Union Corse, Corsican dope traffickers who’d perfected “French Connection” routes from Southeast Asia and Turkey into Marseille, then onto New York to feed a ballooning American addiction crisis. Amid the chaos, one Frenchman fled Argentina to neighboring Paraguay. There he discovered a smuggler’s paradise, full of Nazis and narcos, whose reliance on drugs and contraband would grow so huge that US drug squads would refer not only to the French Connection, but to one named for Paraguay’s repressive, half-German dictator: The Stroessner Connection. He and the fugitive French mafioso would form a bond that, in many ways, has outlived both of them to today. https://buymeacoffee.com/theunderworldpodcast SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON FOR BONUS EPISODES, SCRIPTS AND LIKE AND COMMENT! BONUS EPISODES PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheUnderworldPodcast NOW ON ITUNES WITH ONE CLICK TWITTER: https://twitter.com/underworld_pod INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/theunderworldpodcast/ Subscribe to the Podcast to get episodes early: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-underworld-podcast/id1529370760 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5h1ezGfXXaWoLImrDekAF8