Manuel Antonio Noriega has been an influential person for the country of Panama and other countries in which he had businesses and dealt with during the time he was in power. Manuel Antonio Noriega was very influential along with other well known drug lords such as Pablo Escobar. Noriega helped the drug trafficking and used his power to make Panama a stepping stone for the drug cartels to transport their product from Colombia to Panama, then Mexico and ultimately to the United States. Noriega was a wanted man accused of many federal crimes that put him in a Florida prison with a long sentence.
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega was born in Panama City, Panama on February 11, 1934. He was born the son of an accountant
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Noriega then contributed to the success of Colonel Torrijo as he overturned the civilian government of Arnulfo Arias. As Noriega was helping Colonel Torrijo his career became successful and in 1971 he became useful to the U.S. Intelligence by collaborating in the release of crewmen from two freighter seized by Fidel Castro and the Cuban government. At this time he was already involved in the narcotics and trafficking. Colonel Torrijos died in 1981 in a mysterious plane accident, not long after Noriega was promoted to General and commander of the National Guard in 1983. From 1993 until 1989 he led the Panamanian Defense Forces and Ruled in Panama. His regime was well known for his strong-armed tactics; drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption (Encyclopedia of World Biography, …show more content…
Noriega at this point was so involved in the operation that as the business became lucrative he purchased a jetliner that was used exclusively to transport drug money earned from trafficking in the U.S. back to panama where it was placed in Panamanian banks. CIA agents slowly learned of all the activity happening in Panama and that General Noriega instead of attacking the drug cartels and traffickers was actually working with them and benefitting from the millions of dollars in bribes (Phillips,
In the early 1930’s, the Dominican Republic elected a new president by the name of Rafael Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo was a ruthless and selfish dictator even before he won the election. To win the election, he used his connections to kill supporters of the opposing candidates. Rafael Trujillo used his powers to oppress and murder masses of people (2 ”Rafael Trujillo”). Even though he was initially seen as a beneficial leader, Rafael Trujillo was proven to be an evil dictator.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, near Birn in Cuba’s Eastern Oriente Province to a wealthy sugar plantation owner and a mother who was a domestic servant to his father’s first wife (Source A). Castro was the third of six children and was raised in prominently wealthy circumstances that allowed him to attend well known and well revered schools like Belen Jesuit Prep. Source: A.S.A. & C.S.A. He was a man that could not be just labeled solely by one phrase or one convenient definition, he was loved by supporters of communist rule and he was also a face feared by many Cubans. He held multitudes of titles to countless different people, ranging from honorable military leader to a protruding symbol of the communist revolution in Latin America that was feared by the Cuban people and Americans alike. Fidel was acclaimed to be intellectually gifted by his teachers, but was a trouble maker.
During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Peruvian military school. America fearing that these third world military schools would be a breeding ground for future communist leaders, implanted many agents to keep watch over them. One of these recruitment’s would be Manuel Noriega. America first employed Noriega in these early years to inform them on the schools leftist teachings and slowly helped and inspired him to become one of America’s best assets and later their worst enemy.
Simon Bolivar was born on July 24, 1783. His birthplace was in present day Caracas, Venezuela. Bolivar’s full name was Simon José Antonio de la Santísma Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios, and was also known as “El Libertador” or “The Liberator” ("Simon Bolivar Biography"). He was born to Colonel Juan Bolívar and Concepción Palacios Blanco. Bolivar’s mother rarely looked after him, and was mainly cared for by nurses. Bolivar also stated that his only true mother was Hipolita, his childhood nurse. Both of his parents died when he was only seven years old! Bolivar’s family was one of the oldest Creole families in Venezuela. The estates of the Bolivar family were managed by Bolivar’s mother (Goodnough 16). His father was a big squanderer and also a “night owl”, and rarely had time for his children. Bolivar had two older sisters and a brother. Their names were; Maria, Juana, and his brother Juan (Vila). Then at the age of fourteen, Bolivar enlisted in the White Militia Battalion, which had once been commanded by his father. After only his first year he was promoted to a Second Lieutenant!
Rafael Trujillo used insurgency in a many ways to overthrow the Dominican Republic government within his boarders, especially using subversion as one of his best methods. During this time, Horacio Vasquez was the current president at the time of Dominican Republic in 1930, while Trujillo was the General for the Army and the Police Department Chief.
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina reigned over the Dominican Republic in a dictatorship, extending over thirty years. He is known as having been the “most ruthless dictator in Latin America.” However, there is another side to the story. Trujillo was the third son of a humble sheep herder and worked as a sugar plantation guard in his adolescent years. He enlisted in the United States Marines Corp during the U.S.’s occupation in the Dominican Republic. He built himself up to National Commander and claimed presidency in 1930. He was a man known to be surrounded by “a surfeit of booze, women, wealth, power, and enemies.” Until his final years, he was admired by the Dominican people and seen as a demi-god and savior. During his first prosperous years
Years before the United States went after Saddam Hussein, the White House had General Manuel Noriega, who had been on the CIA’s payroll over the 20 years prior to the invasion, in its sights. Noriega was actually taken off the CIA payroll by President Jimmy Carter's CIA Director Mansfield Turner back in 1978, but immediately put back on the CIA payroll by the Reagan Adminstration at double Mansfield’s salary. Placed at the head of the CIA to do the government’s bidding, Noriega was basically manipulated into becoming a tyrannical arms and drug kingpin.
The CIA’s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted.
...y records from August of 1982 connected the General to Operation Sofia. These documents detailed a series of counterinsurgency sweeps though Guatemalan regions to kill the enemy guerillas and destroy their bases with extreme force.
Born on December 17, 1956 in Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico was Carrillo Fuentes. Carrillo was a member of the “Juarez Cartel” Quickly emerging into the head leader of it after killing his boss “Rafael Aguilar” in 1993. this event led him into the throne and he was able to do many things. As one
Operation JUST CAUSE was a conflict that ensued between the United States and Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) led by Manuel Antonio Noriega. Between 1987 and 1989, there was a steady shift in U.S. foreign policy due to the constant problems with the Panamanian military and its political climate (Grant, 1992, p. v). In 1977, the United State’s original intention was to sign over sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama in its entirety by the year 2000 in order to help stabilize the nation while improving the anti-American sentiment within the country. By the late 1980s, Noriega became heavily involved in drug trafficking. It was evident that the US’s strategy to build stability within the country through the treaty was threatened. The United States attempted to indict Noriega on drug charges as well as imposed sanctions on the country – neither, which was succe...
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 in Buran, Cuba to the parent’s foreigners Angel, and Lina Castro Ruz. He is the son of a successful sugar cane planter. Fidel Castro was known for his athletic skill and for his smarts. He went to the school for and started studying under the law career at the University of Havana. In 1946, he had been in a few newspapers because of his speeches, and a year later Castro joined the socialist Party of the Cuban People.
in 1942. (Cockcroft, 232) Figueres returned in 1944, and an alleged fixing of the 1948 Costa Rican election was the window that he had been waiting for. Supported by the governments of Guatemala, Cuba, and the U.S., Figueres and his Army of National Liberation would force the surrender of President Picado, a puppet of Calderon, and the
Noriega and Escobar cut a deal to ship cocaine through Panama for 100,000 per a load. Once it got to the us, Americas obsession with it quickly turned Escobar into the most powerful man in Colombia. At $10,000 per kilo, 300 kilos was worth about $3 million. At one point it was estimated that 70 to 80 tons of cocaine were being shipped from Colombia to the U.S. every month.
When we were little kids, we always loved watching movies. Specifically movies where there was either a good guy or hero involved. No matter if it was a Disney classic or an action-packed Marvel series, The ideal perspective was that we always rooted for the good guy or the hero; not me, I always rooted for the bad guy, the criminal. When everyone rooted for Batman, I rooted for the Joker, or when everyone expected Ariel to have a happy ending in the little mermaid, I wanted Ursula to win. That is why when I saw the subject on the drug war, I instantly wanted to focus around the criminals who have caused this war in the first place. I specifically wanted to focus on the criminal Pablo Escobar because of his notorious reputation. Seeing someone