Avant Maduro, la capture par les Etats-Unis de Noriega, président du Panama
This is the latest US military intervention in Latin America before the capture and exfiltration, on Saturday, of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to Donald Trump, accompanied by strikes targeting in particular the capital Caracas.
In 1989, some 27,000 GIs, including 13,000 stationed in Panama, participated in Operation "Just Cause," which officially resulted in 500 deaths -- but NGOs estimate the number of victims to be in the thousands.
On December 20, American soldiers took control of the streets of the capital. After taking refuge for two weeks in the Vatican embassy, Manuel Noriega surrendered on January 3, 1990.
Two years before his capture, Noriega claimed that a price had been put on his head because he refused to cooperate with an American plan to invade Nicaragua.
He will be sentenced by a Florida court to 40 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering, a sentence reduced by half for good behavior.
He was detained successively, until his death in 2017, in the United States, France and Panama for drug trafficking, money laundering and enforced disappearances of opponents while he was in power (1983-1989).
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