The Noriega Years: U.S.-Panamanian Relations, 1981-1990

By Margaret E. Scranton

In December 1989, the United States launched an invasion of Panama designed to decapitate the Panama Defense Force (PDF), install a civilian government, and apprehend General Manuel Noriega. A masterful bargainer, Noriega had managed to endure and outwit each attempt, short of the use of military force, that the US had made to remove him from power. Once the bedrock of his power base, the PDF, was immobilized by the invasion, he turned himself in and began a new power game, this time in the US federal courts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555872042
• ISBN13: 9781555872045
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"