Noriega acknowledges supporters after surviving a coup attempt in October 1989. Photograph: Wesley Boxce/Getty Images
QCR – Manuel Noriega, the feared dictator and the man who knew too much, died in his native Panama at the age of 83.
The Panamanian general that was a CIA asset and go-between in Central America’s dirty wars but became a monster the US could not control, died on Monday, May 29, 2017.
“Noriega dies and Panama begins a new phase of its history,” is the headline in the La Estrella, Panama’s leading Spanish-language newspaper.
“Although it (his terminal illness) gave him time to forgive his own way, with the media attention that such a gesture deserved, Manuel Antonio Noriega died last night without the indulgence of a people who still resent his
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