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...Reagan was fighting the war in Panama for the democratic rights of those people and against human rights violations, why did he choose not to send American soldiers to Ethiopia, where yet another military dictator was abusing the basic human rights of many and causing a 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...
...many simplifications that my arguments contain. But although I do not pretend to understand entirely the complicated motives of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I find it extremely hard to believe that either president acted out of some idealistic desire to protect basic human rights and democracy in Panama or Kuwait. The motives behind their actions seem almost transparent, and it is tempting to label them nothing but materialistic...
...summer of 1989, and plans were in the works for the U.S. military invasion of Panama. But the problem was that the CIA and its agents were not in place to watch dictator Manuel Noriega. There was, however, a spy the U.S. could turn to -- in this case a young man, the son of European immigrants, who passed himself off as an international merchant willing to do business with the pariah regime. Noriega had him over for dinner and intimate talks. (The spy had ingratiated himself by presenting the general with a bust of his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.) As proficient...
...past six years, the military has deployed its clandestine units of spies in Panama, the Persian Gulf and Somalia, among other places. The U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force operatives, who number nearly 1,000 (compared with the CIA's 5,000), will be centralized by October under the existing Defense Intelligence Agency, an outfit that for the most part analyzes the data collected by the CIA, the Pentagon's satellites and defense attaches at U.S. embassies. Centralized discipline is designed to correct past problems of rogue agentry and wasteful spending...
Carillo acts as a liaison between Mexican drug traffickers and the Cali cartel of Colombia, which in recent years has come to dominate the cocaine trade worldwide. Following a U.S. clampdown in the 1980s on their shipping routes through Panama and the Caribbean, the Cali bosses began contracting their transportation to Mexican contrabandista families, bootleggers who for generations have specialized in running goods -- whiskey, heroin, blue jeans -- into the U.S. In the system that eventually evolved, the Colombians flew planeloads of cocaine from Colombia into Mexico, then paid the Mexicans to move the goods across the border...