Noriega: The Fall of El General
In the nineteen eighties, Panama sits at the center of a cocaine corridor moving product from Colombia north to the United States, with cartel planes landing on jungle airstrips while bank towers in Panama City count the proceeds. Manuel Noriega, known to his enemies as Pineapple Face, commands the country's defense forces, its courts and its customs posts simultaneously. Prosecutors later estimated hundreds of millions of dollars in cartel fees moved through Panamanian banks under his protection. Richard Gregorie, an assistant United States attorney in Miami, builds a drug trafficking…
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