November 3, 1989 www.amazon.com Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (born February 11, 1934) is a former general and the military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989. The 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States removed him from power; he was captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the US Noriega was tried on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering in April 1992. Noriega’s US prison sentence ended in September 2007; pending the outcome of extradition requests by both Panama and France, he remains in prison as of 2010. Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (April 13, 1932 – September 21, 1976) was a Chilean economist, political figure, diplomat and, later, US-based activist. He was assassinated in Washington, DC by Chilean DINA agents. The CIA, DEA, State Department, and several other US government agencies have been implicated in various drug trafficking enterprises, which were used to fund illegal covert activities in several nations. A lawsuit filed in 1986 by two journalists represented by the Christic Institute showed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other parties were engaged in criminal acts, including financing the purchase of arms with the proceeds of cocaine sales. Senator John Kerry’s 1988 US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concludes that members of the US State Department “who provided support for the Contras are involved in drug trafficking…and elements of the Contras …

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