{"id":393260,"date":"2017-05-30T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/05\/30\/ex-panama-military-ruler-manuel-noriega-dies-at-83\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:54:16","slug":"ex-panama-military-ruler-manuel-noriega-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/05\/30\/ex-panama-military-ruler-manuel-noriega-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Panama military ruler Manuel Noriega dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced.<\/p>\n<p>Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Noriega had been a key US ally but was forcibly removed when American troops invaded in 1989 and was later jailed in the US on drugs and laundering charges.<\/p>\n<p>He spent the rest of his life in custody, latterly in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p>But the former leader was released from jail in January to prepare for the operation in early March to remove a brain tumour.<\/p>\n<p>He underwent further surgery after cerebral bleeding but died late on Monday local time in Panama City\u2019s Santo Tomas hospital, Secretary of State for Communication Manuel Dominguez announced.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Heavy metal music<\/h4>\n<p>Although he was never elected to office, Noriega became the de facto leader of Panama, serving a six-year tenure as military governor in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>A strong supporter of the United States, he became a key ally in Washington\u2019s attempts to battle the influence of communism in central America.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/_96265122_039780685-1.jpg\" alt=\"General Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1985\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But the US tired of his increasingly repressive role internally in Panama, and there were indications he was selling his services to other intelligence bodies, not to mention drug-trafficking organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Noriega was indicted in a US federal court on drug-trafficking charges in 1988 and, after US observers declared he had stolen the 1989 election, President George HW Bush launched an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Noriega sought refuge in the Vatican\u2019s diplomatic mission in Panama City.<\/p>\n<p>US troops flushed him out was to play deafening pop and heavy metal music non-stop outside.<\/p>\n<p>By 3 January 1990, Noriega surrendered and was flown to the US to face drug-trafficking, money-laundering and racketeering charges, serving 17 years in jail there.<\/p>\n<p>While in jail he was convicted in absentia in France of money-laundering and sentenced to seven years. After the US extradited him to France, a court there approved a request from Panama in December 2010 to send him back home, where he was convicted again.<\/p>\n<p>A US Senate sub-committee once described Washington\u2019s relationship with Noriega as one of the United States\u2019 most serious foreign policy failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Manuel Antonio Noriega, former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced. Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery. 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