Manuel Noriega
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's like, what he's doing is he wants to see how you live and he wants to watch you 24 seven to see if he can trust you.
Right.
He wants to look at my mannerisms.
He wants to, you know, he wants to see how the enemy sleeps.
Right.
And, uh,
So I do a good job.
I'm cool.
You know, I start to, you know, mesh in.
I'm trying to speak more Spanish.
I'm like actively only trying to speak Spanish.
I try to win him over every day.
He starts introducing me to new people.
All these former regime generals of Noriega are coming over to the apartment.
We're all having breakfast.
Zero trust for me.
Some of them won't even look me in the eyes because I'm a gringo.
And then this one guy comes over.
His name is Jose Hilario Trujillo.
He used to be the mayor of Panama City, but he was in the Air Force under Noriega.