(Prensa.com) At 6:08 pm this Sunday, December 11, 2011, landed on Panamanian soil Iberia plane moved to the former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega in Panama, who was extradited from France. The aircraft, from Madrid (Spain), where Noriega had to scale, landed on the runway three Tocumen International Airport. It's been 21 years and 11 months after Noriega (77 years) was … [Read more...]

(BBC) Panama's jailed former ruler Manuel Noriega will be extradited from France to his homeland on Sunday, Foreign Minister Roberto Henriquez says. The minister says Noriega - who has already been convicted in absentia of corruption and murder in Panama - will serve his sentences in his native land. Noriega, aged 77, is also wanted in Panama for other crimes allegedly … [Read more...]

(Latimes.com) The last time he was in Panama, former dictator Manuel Noriega was being bombarded around the clock with deafening pop and heavy metal music as American troops tried to flush him out of the Vatican diplomatic mission where he had taken refuge. Now, after more than two decades in prison in the United States and in France, the ex-general who ran the strategic … [Read more...]

(Prensa.com) The former general Manuel Antonio Noriega, imprisoned in France for money laundering, can reach Panama before Christmas, if the paperwork is expedited, after meeting EU approval today to be extradited this country, his lawyer said Panama, Julio Berrios. "If the bureaucracy, both in France and Panama are expeditious, Noriega in Panama must be before Christmas," … [Read more...]

(CSmonitor.com) Filled with colorful chapters of revolution, civil unrest, and tin-pot tyrants, the history of Latin America has a way of repeating itself. So many Latin Americans keep one leery eye on the past at all times, acutely aware that it could sneak ahead into the future if the present is not managed properly. But Panamanians are an exception: relentlessly … [Read more...]