The murder of Torrijos. (Omar Torrijos) (Beat the Devil)

The Nation | August 15, 1987| | Copyright

Amid much exulting over U.S. pressure to restore "democracy" in Panama, memory has dimmed entirely on the original charges of Col. Roberto Diaz Herrera, the man whom Gen. Manuel Noriega's troops dragged from his house on July 27. When Diaz first denounced Noriega, he said that the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Panama's leader, had been engineered in 1981 by means of a bribe offered by the C.I.A. I was in London at the time, reading Jonathan Steele's report from Washington in the The Guardian for June 12, which stated:

Colonel Diaz alleged that General Noriega ...

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