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Manuel Noriega

Panamanian military leader
Also known as: Manuel Antonio Noriega Morena
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Manuel Noriega (born February 11, 1934?, Panama City, Panama—died May 29, 2017, Panama City) was a Panamanian military leader, commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces (1983–89), who, for the years of his command, was the actual power behind the civilian president. Noriega was born into a poor family of Colombian extraction. (There is some dispute about when he was born, with Noriega himself reporting his birth year as both 1934 and 1936 and legal documents...

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