36 Years Ago, the United States Was Already Arresting a President in a Rocking Episode: Bush Had a Different Justification than Trump
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Thirty-six years before Nicolas Maduro, the Americans arrested Manuel Noriega in Panama. Operation "Just Cause" was launched on 3 January 1990, as in Venezuela. The Panamanian dictator was also tried for drug trafficking. ...
The former military dictator Manuel Noriega, like Nicolas Maduro, was accused of drug trafficking because he accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from drug trafficking and transformed Panama...
After the capture of Manuel Antonio Noriega on January 3, 1990, Panama began a complex process of political, institutional and economic reconstruction after years of dictatorship and the impact of the U.S. invasion. See also: What follows for Nicolás Maduro and Venezuela? The arrest of the former governor, accused of drug trafficking and human rights violations, marked the end of an authoritarian regime that had isolated the country and profound…
The arrest, on 3 January, of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is reminiscent of another American military operation: that carried out in 1989 against Manuel Noriega, then head of the Republic of Panama.
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