Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement comes amidst rapidly souring relations between the U.S. and Panama over Noriega's alleged assistance to Colombian drug merchants that was revealed in recent Congressional testimony...
...indictments accuse Noriega of allowing Colombian drug traffickers to use Panama as a base for smuggling cocaine and marijuana into the United States. The charges said Noriega received a healthy kickback from drug profits. His take was put at up to $4.8 million...
With the entire 16,000-man Panama Defense Forces at his disposal, Noriega showed little fear of the violent Colombian cocaine barons. His former private pilot Floyd Carlton, who showed up in the hearing room wearing a black hood, told the subcommittee that when the Medellin cartel offered Noriega $30,000 to protect drug flights, the general laughed and asked if they thought he was begging. Carlton said Noriega then demanded, and got, $100,000 in advance for the first flight, $150,000 for the second and $200,000 for the third...
...greed far more than loyalty to any ideology. While a valued point man for the CIA, he enjoyed close relations with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. Blandon says he personally witnessed a 1984 meeting in Havana at which Castro mediated a dispute between Noriega and the leaders of a major Colombian drug cartel. According to Blandon, as well as U.S. Customs investigators, Noriega has supplied Cuba with U.S. intelligence and high-technology goods. In Central America, the general has sold weapons both to Nicaragua's anti-Communist contras and to Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador. "He is a businessman," declares Blandon...
...still be revived. But first, he said, the U.S. has to increase the aid it provides to help fight Colombia's drug mafia from the current $15 million a year, which he called a "drop in the bucket." Low's remarks reflect a growing anti-U.S. sentiment among Colombians, who blame the violence on the American demand for cocaine. (Colombian drug lords supply 75% of the coke consumed...