Tag: Manuel Noriega

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Panama begins exhuming a mass grave from the 1989 invasion by the US

  

  Authorities in Panama on Monday began exhuming a mass grave containing the remains of unknown civilians killed during the 1989 US invasion of the Central American country. The move follows a decades-long effort by families of missing people to identify remains buried in a common grave in the capital's Jardin de Paz cemetery.

• Saturday, December 1st 2018 - 10:34 UTC

  George Bush, the graceful victor of Gorbachev and the Soviet empire has died

  

  George Herbert Walker Bush, the World War II veteran who was elected the 41st president of the United States and fathered the nation's 43rd, died late Friday at the age of 94, his family announced in a statement. The Republican spent decades serving in government before ascending to the nation's highest office, having served as United Nations ambassador, CIA chief and vice president under Ronald Reagan, a towering political figure still venerated by the GOP.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 02:47 UTC

  US Extradites Former Panamanian Leader Noriega and CIA Recruit to France

  

  The former Panamanian leader, Manuel Noriega, has been extradited to France by the United States after spending more than 20 years in a prison there.