He is survived by his wife, Felicidad, and daughters Lorena, Thays and Sandra. This article is more than 4 years old. Manuel Antonio Noriega was put into an induced coma in March after brain surgery. Photograph: AP. Manuel Noriega — a life in pictures. Read more. Manuel Noriega - from US friend to foe. Topics Panama Americas news. Reuse this content. He spent the final years of his life in a Panamanian prison for the murder of political opponents during his six-year reign.
In , doctors detected the rapid growth of a benign brain tumor that had first been spotted four years earlier. In January, a court granted Noriega house arrest to prepare for surgery on the tumor. After surgery in March, Noriega's daughters said he suffered a hemorrhage that left him in grave condition.
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After a few days of fighting, the Central American dictator fled to asylum at the Vatican Embassy on Christmas Eve, setting off a bizarre siege in which U. Ten days later, he finally surrendered and was whisked to Miami. Noriega was never again a free man. He was imprisoned first in Florida, then in France, and finally at home in Panama, where he died on Monday at age He joined Panama's Defense Forces in and steadily advanced through the ranks, mainly through loyalty to his mentor, Gen.
Omar Torrijos, who became Panama's de facto leader after a coup. As Torrijos' intelligence chief, Noriega monitored political opponents and developed close ties with U. Two years after Torrijos died in a mysterious plane crash in , Noriega became the head of the armed forces and Panama's de facto ruler.
Noriega ruled with an iron fist, ordering the deaths of those who opposed him and maintaining a murky, close and conflictive relationship with the United States. At the apex of his power he wielded great influence outside the country as well thanks to longstanding relationships with spy agencies around the world, said R. Koster, an American novelist and biographer of Noriega. Noriega was considered a valued CIA asset and was paid millions of dollars for assistance to the U.
Noriega also helped the U. But Washington ultimately soured on him, especially after a top political opponent was killed in and Noriega appeared to join forces with Latin American drug traffickers.
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