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...senator, he has earned a reputation as a vigorous crime-fighter, pursuing the prosecution of such notorious figures as former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and Reagan functionary Oliver North...
...immediately introduced to the CEO, Paco Noriega, who briefed me on the company's concerns and provided me with binders of documentation and ledgers. It seemed that KDC had two big problems...
...however, has a strange record in this area. In December 1989 Bush sent troops to Panama, grabbed General Manuel Noriega and hauled him to Florida for trial to face charges of narcotics trafficking. The indictment of Noriega was unprecedented because he was a sitting foreign leader, but prosecutors said they couldn't ignore his flagrant crimes. Noriega protested that the U.S. had no jurisdiction over him since his "arrest"--the Panama invasion--violated international law. But U.S. courts said the method of his arrest was irrelevant. Noriega was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in jail...
...make moral sense of how America treats its local dictators? We ease "Baby Doc" Duvalier out of power in Haiti and into a chateau in southern France, and we send the Haitian generals to a comfortable retirement in Panama. Manuel Noriega, Panama's onetime strongman, languishes in a Florida prison. The other thugs remain free. Why does Noriega rot while the others bask...
...power, not justice, that determines who gets arrested. Noriega was no worse than the Haitian dictators. He was certainly far less a killer, torturer and oppressor than Fidel Castro, who is the toast of every capital he visits. And he is a piker beside the butchers of Tiananmen Square, who are received with deference everywhere they...