Word: panama
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Kellner said Noriega received payoffs from Escobar and Ochoa to protect cocaine shipments flown from Medellin, Colombia, through Panama to the United States...
...This indictment details for the first time allegations of the central role played by Manuel Antonio Noriega in the international narcotics trade and how he sold his official positions to further narcotics trafficking through Panama," U.S. Attorney Leon Kellner said today...
...indictment says that Noriega, after he took control of Panama in 1983, "utilized his official positions to provide protection for international criminal narcotics traffickers," including the Medellin Cartel, said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States...
Noriega also allegedly arranged for the shipment of cocaine processing chemicals, including those seized by Panamanian police agencies and allowed the cartel to construct a cocaine laboratory in Panama's Darien province...
When Colombia's anti-drug minister of justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated by traffickers, Noriega allowed the cartel leaders to shift their operations to Panama to escape a crackdown in their own country...