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Also known as Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian military officer and politician 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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Manuel Noriega was a Panamanian military officer who ruled the country as an unelected dictator from 1983 to 1989, accumulating wealth through drug trafficking while maintaining connections with U.S. intelligence agencies. He matters historically because his reign ended with a direct U.S. military invasion, making him a significant figure in late Cold War geopolitics and the history of American intervention in Latin America.
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