Manuel Noriega

Born

February 11, 1934

Died

May 29, 2017 (aged 83)

Known as

politician, military personnel, drug lord, military engineer

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian military officer and dictator who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the United States invasion of Panama removed him from power.

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