But so, yeah, Noriega has cooperated with drug raids in like the late 80s, the tail end of the Reagan administration.

But this is really bad for the Panamavian economy because there's a lot of money laundering.

And the investigation shows that like this is you know

handing love with the government um so he becomes you know uh vilified by the united states

but also very unpopular in america or excuse me in Panama, for cooperating with Operation Pisces,

which was bad for the Panamanian economy.

So he's getting it from two sides, and the Reagan administration tries to make a deal with

him in 1988.

So they'll say, we'll let you off the hook if we can expand military presence in Panama.

And he says no, for whatever reason.

So they ended up charging him.

And then by the time the elections happen, it kind of seems like they this is you know somewhat

conspiratorial but I feel like they let him uh launch the coup basically they let him do the

January 6th thing because if they want had wanted to the U.S. could have intervened.

Because they already...

Yeah.

And they already like put in money for his opponent, right?

So they were like kind of trying to have it both ways there.

So they like could have...

It kind of seems like if they, if you know that's going to happen or it is happening, you're better off just letting it happen and then cleaning it up afterwards because if you go and get in front of the insurrection, right? The story is United States interferes with a foreign election. Whereas if you let the whatever fucking uh January 6th style event occur

you have a great carte blanche to go do whatever the hell you want after

in 1980s.

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