Word: sosa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug charges would be dropped -- a proposition that drove even the relentlessly loyal Bush to his first public break with a Reagan policy. In the end, Noriega rejected the entire deal, and the U.S. was left to issue vague threats of future action. The general, says anti-Noriega Juan Sosa, Panama's Ambassador to Washington, "was never serious about negotiating...
...that Panama President Eric Arturo Delvalle had been unconstitutionally dismissed by a legislature controlled by Noriega after Delvalle attempted to fire the general. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead certified that the proper custodian of Panamanian government funds in the U.S. Federal Reserve and federally insured banks was Juan Sosa, Delvalle's Ambassador in Washington. Sosa thus controls $50 million that would otherwise come under the direction of Noriega's cronies...
Delvalle and Sosa sought other ways to squeeze the Noriega government financially. One was to urge the Administration to hold up $7 million that the U.S. will soon owe Panama as a periodic payment required by the Panama Canal treaties. Delvalle has persuaded most of Panama's worldwide consulates to retain the more than $20 million in annual payments that the government reportedly receives from 11,000 merchant ships registered under the Panamanian flag. In a written response to questions from TIME last week, Delvalle declared from hiding, "All imaginable pressures, no matter how dramatic they may seem, should...
Panama's ambassador in Washington, Juan B. Sosa, who has sided with Delvalle in his clash with Noriega, said the former president was "in a safe and sound place...
...mothers don't want war because it's our children who are falling in the fields of battle," Sosa said...