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Hearts of Iron IV (2016)

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Here's a new custom TNO event. This one showing one of the potential consequences of a late-game USA run under President Jeane Kirkpatrick: a covert CIA campaign to prop up a local "robin hood" figure named Pablo Escobar, who's totally not a powerful drug lord, as the leader of Colombia in an effort to combat Einheitspakt and Co-Prosperity Sphere influence. Very much a REALLY GOOD IDEA.

In real life, in addition to Escobar's aforementioned notoriety and death at the hands of Colombian authorities and the US, it's known that he had political aspirations and ambitions for legitimate power. In TNO, while much of his OTL self's background would be very similar, the Americans could potentially wind up supporting him, albeit looking the other way with his drug operations with strings attached, if it means deterring the other global blocs, to say nothing of Communist insurgents. Needless to say, this can have long-term consequences.

For some trivia, in addition to the Colombian national anthem ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7co4DMeXjAE ), the music includes a reverbed version of the Narcos theme, Rodrigo Amarante's "Tuyo" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOfHt3ziIQ ). The speech at the end is from a 1984 speech by Kirkpatrick herself on Harry Truman ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3phR4y-sRU ).

And yes, the clip at the end is that one scene with the helicopter from Narcos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVqJIzgjsa0 ).

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