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According to a former Haitian army officer who now lives in Miami, the real strongman is not Namphy, but Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, commander of an infantry battalion that includes more than 700 soldiers and armed civilians. The officer claims that without Paul's cooperation, military and paramilitary forces could not have aborted the balloting. Paul is known to have a close working relationship with Claude Raymond, a former general whose presidential campaign was crushed when the electoral council disqualified twelve candidates, citing the new constitution's widely popular ten-year ban on Duvalierists seeking public office...
...Panama's Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega supplies Nicaragua with intelligence reports on U.S. military movements in the region...
...divine warriors." In 1985 he invited the group to a Chicago rally featuring a live satellite broadcast in which Gaddafi urged blacks serving in the U.S. military to desert and join his forces. Last year El Rukns' "generals" produced a videotape pledging their allegiance to the Libyan strongman...
...military strongman seized control hours after Governor-General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who represents Queen Elizabeth II in the former British colony, announced an interim solution to the Pacific island chain's political problems. Ganilau proposed a caretaker government consisting of all major political groups pending new elections. But Rabuka said he would accept nothing less than permanent political control by ethnic Fijians, who constitute 47% of the population while ethnic Indians make...
Even by the old standards of Latin American despots, Panama's strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega is no slouch. He has been accused of drug running, money laundering, election fraud and helping to steer restricted American technology to the Cubans and Soviets, not to mention repressing his own people. Yet Noriega, the Commander of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto dictator since 1983, has been adept at exploiting his country's strategic position. Although he openly cuddles up to Havana, he has long enjoyed a cozy relationship with the CIA, and his country plays host to the headquarters...