Gordon Carrera

And I think that's what, when you look at the parallels for this, as I said, there are parallels in terms of things like Guatemala and Chile, but they tended to be quite covert.

I mean, the only one that kind of sits a bit closer is Panama when they went after Noriega in 1989.

And I mean, this is a really interesting story because on one level, it does look quite similar, doesn't it?

Because you've got an operation to go after General Noriega, who is then running Panama, and to remove him and bring him to a U.S.

court.

But it's also got some differences.

I mean, I hadn't realised that Noriega had been a CIA asset, David, at one point and been used by the US to kind of go after leftist groups and then decides he's going to get big in the drug trade and kind of take over the country.

And then they, it's different to some extent because Panama is obviously much smaller as a country and they have a US military base there because of the Panama Canal.

And so in some ways it's easier to do, but it's still a pretty violent operation, which takes a few weeks, claims, I think, 26 American lives, a few hundred Panamanians dead.

And then eventually Noriega flees.

to I think it's the Vatican embassy, the Vatican mission in Panama where he's holed up for days and they play rock music loudly at him over speakers to try and get him out.

If you go on Spotify, you can actually find the Spotify playlist

for the tunes that they played.

Someone has put it together.

And it's great because they've got some... They've got Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses.

They've got Panama by Van Halen.

Very, very apt.

I think All I Want Is You by U2.

So I think whoever was doing... And I think it was someone in Southern Command for the US military.

Whoever was doing the playlist was clearly trying to find funny song titles, which they could also blare loudly at Noriega, who it turns out was an opera lover and hated...