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Article: Political corruption plagues Panama, recalling Noriega era. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 9, 1994
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PANAMA CITY _ Four years after Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was ousted in a U.S. invasion designed to curb the corrupt practices he institutionalized, there is mounting evidence that little has changed in the country he left for U.S. jail time.
Almost-daily reports of government corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking have led to a malaise among Panamanians who had hoped for a cleaner democracy in their future.
While similar allegations could be made about many governments around the world, the tragic irony of Panama is that the plague of corruption is exactly what Noriega's removal by U.S. troops in December 1989 was supposed to curb.
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