Transcript for Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83

I also breaking overnight former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died. Once a close ally an informant for the USC ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989. That's when the US invaded Panama to oust him and arrest him on drug trafficking charges he spent seventeen years in a federal prison. Analysts' current president said Noriega's death closes a chapter in their history and his relatives deserve to bury him in peace among our yea ago was 83.

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