Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (February 11, 1934 - May 29, 2017) was a [[panama|Panamanian]] dictator (from 1983 to 1989) and military officer, as well as a former intelligence source for the [[CIA]]. 
His violent leadership and growing involvement in drug-trafficking and money laundering eventually led the [[united_states|American]] goverment to launch an invasion on Panama in 1989 with the objective of capturing him.
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