Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno Quotes
I never thought they would come
Noriega had been running drug smuggling operations in the United States. In 1989, American Troops landed in Panama and arrested him. He was brought to the United States, tried, convicted and served a jail sentence and was then extradited to Panama where he was again jailed there for his crimes as doctator.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno, Military Dictator of Panama, Statement to his aid when American Troops landed and were surrounding him, 1989, Quoted by General Wesley Clark, CNN October 20, 2011
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Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian politician and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. An authoritarian ruler who amassed a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations, he had longstanding ties to United States intelligence agencies before the U.S. invasion of Panama removed him from power.
