Manuel Noriega

But even then, like...

Yeah, he knew exactly sort of what I was doing, but that was back in March.

And then between like now and March, I've just been like slowly refining it by sending it to people for fact checking.

They've basically said like, this is great.

But, you know, this little piece here that you said, like, I don't think it's quite accurate.

Like, this is what you should do.

So taking all that into consideration.

Then I go I just spent the last month in Panama.

They're speaking with like their newspaper La Prensa It's like their head newspaper interviewing all these veteran journalists who reported on Noriega like while all this stuff was happening just making sure everybody was cool sort of with the fact that like me

like an irish guy is telling their story and and i will go so far as to say that this book like i think it's going to be the most accurate like a story told of like this sort of thing like ever right especially because there are books books have been written about it in panama but they're obviously hypercritical of noriega and they focus a lot on the the people and like the civil like the

unjust like yeah how it's like unjust civilly during the regime and whatnot whereas I focus more on the relationship with the United States which I think just explain things far more because it really was the CIA and the US that like built him up gave him everything that he needed

used them and then when he started saying no in 1984 point dexter and oliver north came to him they said hey we want uh you to send panamanian troops to nicaragua to fight and train the contras and noriega said no at that point they had just been like trafficking weapons and stuff for um for the contras and they didn't even like the contras carlos called them animals they liked the sandinistas

Carlos trained Sandinistas before they were asked to train the Contras.

Noriega says no, starts acting on his own interests, and then that really pisses George Bush off.

Because even though H.W.

is VP under Reagan, he still basically controls the CIA.

The Bushes are the CIA, you know what I mean?

Like Langley, Virginia, that building isn't called Langley, it's called the George Bush Institute or something like that.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.