Manuel Noriega
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Like it just, it makes sense.
It's sort of just like, it's a way of the world that like, I don't think a lot of, I think a lot of people do realize this and know this, but they don't know why they know this or they don't know why or how it affects the people in that country and sort of how really at the end of the day, it sort of is like imperialism.
It's like US imperialism.
You know, which nobody ever puts that label on them.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I can start with how he became the dictator, right?
1981, previous dictator Omar Torrijos mysteriously dies in a plane crash.
Okay?
Mysteriously dies in a plane crash.
He was already the dictator, but the situation in Nicaragua was intensifying.
The Sandinistas were winning.
The United States really needed an ally in Panama to take care of that problem in Nicaragua.
Omar Trios was saying no.
He was a socialist.
He was on the side of the Sandinistas.
Mysteriously dies in a plane crash sometime after.
It happens.
It happens.
Yeah, mysteriously.