Word: noriega
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's reluctant guest MANUEL NORIEGA spent his time since 1992 chez Miami's Metropolitan Correctional Center? Boning up on pop culture, it seems. In At Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...MANUEL NORIEGA Panama Sentenced in 1992 to 40 years in prison for racketeering and drug trafficking, he could be paroled in 2002. His three-room cell in Miami's federal prison is known as "the Dictator's Suite...
...hotel, as did a man who identified himself as "The D. Scusting." Mr. Scusting wore a black rubber boot atop his head, in addition to a leopard skin costume, and claimed he had the endorsement of Elvis, former President Richard M. Nixon, and deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega...
Similarly, Ronald Reagan felt it justified to risk American lives to oust Manuel Noriega. Reagan's media correspondents justified the war by claiming that Noriega was involved in drug trafficing, human rights violations and the abusive control of power through a squad of thugs who enforced a reign of terror. The validity of some of these claims is supported by empirical evidence. In hindsight, however, it seems all too apparent that the battle was fought because the interests of American merchants were being threatened...
...famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians? The examples of abusive human rights practices by petty dictators from all over the world are endless. The reason why the United States became involved in Panama, it can at least be conjectured, is because the political instablity that General Noriega represented was too great a financial risk for the president and the nation to handle. Control of the Panama Canal had become too ambiguous, so America sent its children to protect the profits of merchants...