Word: endara
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...church, though, has a tradition of giving asylum to Latin American politicians on the run. Among them: Guillermo Endara, the U.S.-installed current President of Panama, who took shelter in the nunciature from Noriega thugs after he had won an election last May that the dictator annulled. One high-ranking Vatican official summarized the thinking: "The right to asylum must be defended, even for Lucifer." Moreover, contended a church statement, Noriega's surrender to the papal legate "helped in a very positive way to put an end to the conflict ((with invading American troops)) and to hasten the time...
...people feel a sense of peace knowing thatthe monster is leaving our land," said PanamanianPresident Guillermo Endara, frequently a target ofNoriega's thugs...
...Endara said Monday that Panama does not have a prison secure enough to hold Noriega. He acknowledged that once outside the embassy, the general would be captured by U.S. troops surrounding the mission...
...Only after the American authorities are done...can we have the opportunity to extradite him to Panama and make him pay in Panama for the crimes and offenses he has committed here in Panama," Endara said after a New Year's Day Mass. "But for the moment...
...Endara, elected last May in balloting nullified by Noriega, is still in the early stages of establishing a government...