# The Invasion of Panama - Nabbing Noreiga

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Podcast: [Forgotten Wars](https://stenobird.com/podcast/forgotten-wars-7064088)
Published: 2026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/forgotten-wars/episodes/69ee6c17abe143da5b283339
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A South American country is being ruled by a despised dictator, dabbling in Voodoo and allied to Cocaine Cartels, until America launches a daring operation to remove him. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro? No, it’s Panama’s Manuel Noriega! Noriega was very much a creation of the US and its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. A brutal thug, he had been supported by the CIA as a useful asset against Communism. But now he had turned on his former masters. Cocaine was flooding into the US through Panama, their civilians and soldiers were being threatened and harassed, while he did deal with America’s enemies. A reckoning was now coming for the sins of the past. #history #militaryhistory #america #Panama Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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