Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dead at 83
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Vice President Bush with Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, 1983
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Gen. Noriega in Paris, 1984
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Miss USA and Miss Panama flank Gen. Noriega,1986
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Gen. Noriega at a social gathering, 1988
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Gen. Noriega, 1988
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Gen. Noriega stands with newly appointed President Manuel Solis Palma, 1988
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Gen. Noriega waves to supporters, 1988
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Gen. Noriega greets cheering crowds, 1988
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Gen. Manuel Noriega, 1988
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Gen. Noriega greets people at a housing project, 1989
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Gen. Noriega waves to the media, 1989
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Gen. Noriega congratulates Panama’s new provisional president, Francisco Rodriguez, 1989
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Gen. Noriega emerges after a failed coup attempt, 1989
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Gen. Noriega during a pro-government rally, 1989
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Gen. Noriega talks to reporters, 1989
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A U.S. soldier stands guard in Noriega’s house, 1989
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DEA agents chain Manuel Noriega, 1990
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Manuel Noriega’s mug shot, 1990
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A police car transports Manuel Noriega from a Paris courthouse, 2010
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Manuel Noriega in prison in France, 2010
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Manuel Noriega is extradited back to Panama, 2011
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Manuel Noriega is wheeled by police inside El Renacer prison, 2011
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, a onetime U.S. ally who was ousted as Panama’s dictator by an American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age 83.
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela wrote in his Twitter account that “the death of Manuel A. Noriega closes a chapter in our history.”
Varela added, “His daughters and his relatives deserve to mourn in peace.”
Noriega served a 17-year drug sentence in the United States and was later sent to face charges in France. The final years of his life were spent in a Panamanian prison for murder of political opponents during his 1983-89 regime.
He accused Washington of a “conspiracy” to keep him behind bars and tied his legal troubles to his refusal to cooperate with a U.S. plan aimed at toppling Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government in the 1980s. (AP)
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