Anyone who has played Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 knows that there is a no-evil character in the "Suffer with Me" mission, which is completely based on the former President of Panama, Noriega. The game's plot portrays Noriega as a kidnapped, murdered, and innocent enemy of the nation. For this reason, Noriega, who is serving a sentence in Panamanian prison, sued the game publisher, but ended in defeat.
Noriega's upbringing
In the two years before World War II, many countries were already in turmoil and the people were poor. There is a working family in Panama, and the family's income depends mainly on the male owner. Life was very hard, but I had another child. This hard-working family couldn't even squeeze out the little boy's rations. At the age of five, he was sent to an orphanage by his parents, who cut off all contact with him, thus becoming an orphan himself, the boy who would be the future leader of Panama, Noriega.
Noriega, who grew up at the bottom of the valley, did not give up hope for life and had the goal of getting ahead. Perhaps the experience of Noriega's orphans made him realize that only knowledge can change his tragic fate, so he studied desperately and achieved very good results.
Noriega and America's love-hate feud
Long before World War II, because Panama's geographical location was particularly important to the United States, the United States invaded Panama. Panama in the face of the then powerful United States which has the strength to resist, the United States even forced Panama to sign an unequal treaty, in fact, Panama is already equivalent to the Colony of the United States, the United States continues to exploit Panama, so that Panama is even more impoverished, Noriega regards this as a shame.
When I was in high school, Noriega wrote in his diary: "If one day I can become the president of this country, the first thing I will do is to drive those Americans out!" "It may also be the seed after Noriega's full-fledged betrayal of the United States."
In 1954, after graduating from University, Noriega did not look for a job, but went directly to the army, probably because he had a university degree, and was sent to Peru by the army to study. It was during his time in Peru that Noriega's talent, ambition, and ability were favored by the CIA's station manager in Lima, who recruited him as an intelligence officer for the CIA, responsible for collecting intelligence on anti-American organizations throughout Central America.
After returning from his studies in Peru, Noriega transferred to the National Guard and was quickly promoted to captain because of his outstanding resume. During his time in the army, Noriega became acquainted with Torrijos and others, made close friends, and secretly carried out activities against the ruling government in the army, which laid the foundation for their future coups. In 1966, Noriega was sent to Bregburg in the United States for psychological warfare training. After returning to China, with his previous resume, coupled with the experience of studying in the United States, and the support behind the Americans, Noriega was quickly promoted and gradually assumed the middle leadership position of the National Guard, with real power.
In October 1968, Torrijos, Noriega and others staged a coup d'état to overthrow President Arias, who had been in office for only 10 days. Afterwards, Torrijos became the commander-in-chief of the National Guard, taking charge of the Panamanian military and political power, the president had no military power, in fact, it was a decoration, Andrrijos became the de facto head of government. During Torrijos' reign, Noriega was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, not only promoting him to lieutenant colonel in the army, but also making him an important position as the intelligence chief of the National Guard, which made it easier for him to obtain intelligence, and Noriega became a double-sided spy between the United States and Pakistan, paving the way for the peak of his future power.
On July 31, 1981, Torrijos was killed in a plane crash, and in the face of the power vacuum in Panama at that time, Noriega, who was very deep in the city, was not in a hurry to take the throne, and as the director of the intelligence bureau, he knew that he was not in a position of power now. So he waited for the opportunity to secretly cultivate his own power. He first made Paredes commander-in-chief of the National Guard, and after his wings hardened, he overthrew Paredesla in August 1983 and became the commander-in-chief of the National Guard himself, becoming the de facto ruler of Panama.
Noriega's rise to power is certainly indispensable to the support of the United States, so after Noriega is also a considerable "zhien tu" for the United States, providing a lot of valuable intelligence for the CIA. The United States thought that it controlled Noriega, but the United States did not know that it was being used by Noriega to borrow the hand of the United States to ascend to power. But Noriega's "sweet period" with the United States did not last long, and only two years later, the two sides turned against Barnac President Ma Balletta was forced to resign.
It has been said before that Noriega still hated the United States when he was young, and wrote in his diary: "If one day, I can become the president of this country, then the first thing I will do is to drive those Americans out!" ”
Although Balletta is a puppet president, he still advocates the investigation of the murder of a well-known opposition figure, which angers Noriega, who cannot tolerate a president he cannot control. But although Balletta is a puppet, he is after all the way to become the president in the form of public elections. Noriega's dictatorial approach, contrary to the will of the people, aroused the dissatisfaction of many politicians in the country at that time, thus making the political situation in Panama increasingly turbulent.
The United States' own dog bites the United States
The U.S. government was also very dissatisfied with Noriega's actions in Panama, and began to cut economic aid to Panama, and put pressure on Noriega to support Noriega's opposition, and demanded that the political role of the Wehrmacht be limited and that American-style democracy be accepted. Noriega now thinks that he has full wings and has also built the big tree of the Soviet Union, so he does not give the original "master" a little face.
On the contrary, it also talked about the Panama Canal, demanding that the US military must withdraw all of them by the end of 1999 as scheduled and hand over sovereignty over the canal to Panama. The Panama Canal is as important to the United States as the Strait of Malacca, which is the main transportation route on the east and west coasts of the United States. The United States certainly can't stand it, a small Panama, its own former "dog" now began to bite its owner.
Noriega's toughness toward the United States on the Panama Canal issue made Eagle Sauce very unhappy, and the then US President Reagan attacked Noriega on many public occasions, demanding that he still govern the people and implement democracy in the country to solve the problem of political impasse in Panama, but noriet was strongly rejected. In this case, the mouth cannon diplomacy of the United States is useless with carrot diplomacy, and now it can only raise the stick and smash it fiercely, it is only a matter of time, and the United States at that time could not estimate that little Panama was wholeheartedly giving the bear a final blow and was beating the falling water bear.
In the 1990s, the Soviet Union could no longer compare with the 1970s, and could not even maintain its traditional sphere of influence, let alone Panama in the traditional backyard of the United States. On December 20, 1989, President George H.W. Bush issued a military operation code-named "Just Cause", under the banner of protecting the lives and property of American expatriates, and sent 24,000 U.S. troops to launch a surprise attack on Panama.
The United States even dispatched more than 30,000 people to arrest Noriega and escort Noriega to the United States for trial. In 1992, the U.S. Federal Court of Justice in Miami made a final decision and sentenced Noriega to 40 years in prison. So far, Noriega is the only national leader to be sentenced by the laws of another country. This is also what the United States calls human rights, democracy, as long as it is against its own complete lack of reason.
Noriega served 15 years in prison in the United States and was released in 2007. But less than three years later, Noriega was extradited to France for "money laundering" and sentenced to 7 years in prison. Noriega served only 1 year in France, and was later taken back to Panamanian custody because he was considering his age and was placed under house arrest by the Panamanian government. In the words of Chen Qingquan in "The Name of the People": "You are able to connect enough." On May 29, 2017, Noriega died of illness at the age of 83.
A country's former leaders do not have a little dignity and human rights. Sent and sent by the great powers, the other side sentenced, the other side sentenced, completely indifferent to Noriega's feelings, panama's leaders are enough to hold back.