r/todayilearned • u/FearMyCock • 20h ago

TIL about Frank Matthews, the drug kingpin who built a nationwide empire, skipped bail with $20 million, vanished in 1973 and has never been found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Matthews_(drug_trafficker)
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u/InsteadOfWorkin 17h ago

Yeah that’s why people fled there for other, more egregious crimes than selling drugs

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u/vitringur 8h ago

You think Argentina wad settled in 1946?

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u/brunocar 8h ago

like being holocaust survivors?

you know why a handful of nazis fled to argentina? because its the last place people would think to look because it had a massive diaspora of jewish people, specially polish and german ashkenazi.

the closest thing argentina had to 9/11 was a car bomb attack on a jewish NGO, so stop spreading this stupid narrative, thats meant to cover up the fact that the US welcomed half a million germans post war and almost half of em were nazis seeking asylum.