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President Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty to hand back the stolen property to it's rightful owners however the conservatives didn't like this so they invaded Panama to get a better deal but they mainly invaded to silence Noriega who knew about and had been a part of USA illegal drug running. Bush's putsch into Panama had a somewhat different odor. No one ever said definitively why we were there, but the reigning reason always seemed to be drugs. Someone had the idea that Noriega had become the paramount drug "kingping," on a par with the leaders of the Colombia cartels, just a heartbeat away from selling crack to little kids in American schoolyards. (That made it an important, early example of the exploitation of children for political purposes and their protection by the state as the primary goal of public policy.) The proximate cause of the hunt for Noriega was his 1988 indictment, by federal grand juries in south Florida, for facilitating the flow of drugs from Colombia through Panama, a charge made before the grand jury by one of his closest aides, Jose Blandon, who turned against him in return for legal protection and untold riches. By the way, the drug tide seems to have been utterly unaffected by Noriega's apprehension.

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