Manuel Noriega

he uh he's super pissed off he's like after all we've done for you now you're gonna tell us no and from then the contention just like builds and builds and builds there's this guy hugo spadafora who's you know killed by noriega's troops in 1985 and beheaded and chopped up and his body's thrown across the border in costa rica and it's like this massive massive deal it's like

Like, imagine if like he's sort of like a Che Guevara type, you know what I mean?

Like, like a revolutionary, like a huge deal.

And then 86, 87 rolls around Iran Contra affair.

The U.S.

has egg on their face publicly for the first time.

It's like the greatest public embarrassment.

In a nutshell, the Iran-Contra affair is the U.S.

Congress put a trade embargo on U.S.

sort of selling arms to Iran or doing any sort of trade with Iran.

Because in 1979, the Ayatollahs overthrew the Shah of Iran.

The Shah of Iran was a U.S.-backed, like, dictator, puppet, whatever you want to call him.

The Ayatollahs came in.

Iran changed forever.

During that time, Hezbollah, the terrorist organization, took American hostages.

And the U.S.

was sort of negotiating with them to try to release them.

And in like a tactic, the Congress sort of made this embargo, right?

But secretly, the U.S.

government were ignoring that trade embargo and selling weapons to Iran.