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Mr. Noriega in Panama City in 1989. That year, he annulled the results of the country’s presidential election.
John Hopper/Associated Press; thumbnail, Associated Press, 1989
Manuel Noriega
Died on May 29, 2017 at age 83
Manuel Antonio Noriega was the brash former dictator of Panama and sometime ally of the United States whose ties to drug trafficking led to his ouster in 1989 in what was then the largest American military action since the Vietnam War.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.