Panama: Former ruler Manuel Noriega to return to Panama

   More about General Noriega can be found here. Noriega was trained in the U.S. at the School of the Americas and also in psyops at another base. He worked for the CIA from the fifties right up to the eighties even though he was known to be involved in the drug trade committed various crimes.
   However in the late eighties the U.S. decided he was not obedient enough and was a liability. When Noriega ran a flawed election in which his opponent  probably won the U.S. intervened and invaded in late December 1989. They arrested him in January 1990 and sent him to the U.S. to face trial on various charges. The UN condemned the invasion as a violation of international law but of course only Noriega got to be punished!
   Now Noriega has spent more than 20 years in U.S. and French jails he is going back home to Panama where he was convicted in absentia on further charges. Panama allows those over seventy to serve sentences at home. Noriega is already 77 so he may be able to spend his final years in better conditions. For more see this article.
 
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