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Article: Panama Invasion
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PANAMA INVASION
PANAMA INVASION
(1989). The invasion of Panama by U.S. forces in December 1989 was designed in part to end the rule of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A graduate of the Peruvian Military Academy in 1962, he had supported Colonel Omar Torrijos Herrera, the ruler of Panama, during an attempted coup against the latter in 1969. Noriega soon became head of the Panamanian military intelligence service and served Torrijos for a decade as chief of security. Two years after Torrijos's death in an airplane crash in 1981, Noriega became commander of the Guardia Nacional, renamed the Panama Defense Forces (PDF). Torrijos and subsequently Noriega aided the U.S.-sponsored Contras ...
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Article: U.S. INVADES PANAMA; NORIEGA FLEES 'WE WILL CHASE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);
December 21, 1989 ;
700+ words
... ... and the bodies of Noriega loyalists littering ... according to reports from Panama. According to a ... the old quarter of Panama City 12 hours after the invasion began. Noriega loyalists engaged ... initial goals. But Noriega eluded the 12,000 ... troops deployed in Panama, the 7,500 ...
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