noriega is not proud of the childhood. he was proud of his humble upbringing and proud his parents were schoolteachers in a small town in panama. noriega's mother i was told she died when he was 5. she was a domestic servant for his father who never accepted him until noriega was 11 or 12. he didn't grow up as the poorest person in panama. but he was poor. he was adopted by a god mother. the god mother was a kind god mother. so he had a mean streak in upbringing but a god mother who groomed him, dressed him well. i met one of his school friends who was his best friend when noriega was age 7. you see these are the types of stories that really i thought enriched my understanding to noriega to talk to someone who but his best friend at age 7. i said so what threw you together? a shared introversion. neither one of us liked to talk much. we could sit silently in the back of the room. i said did you play games? what did you do? was he athletic? he said no even then he was a serious man and liked to watch other people. at age 7

against an agreement noriega had struck. they paid a great deal of money for protection of the laboratory. he said he media the dispute. that is a key point in the indictment. i have that story in some detail. the reason is i was able to cooperate it. this, theok like hardest i was not coming up with the information. it was coming up with the cooperation. hours were spent the readers not even notice trying to make sure i didn't overstep. when i write the man was bisexual, i have talked to people who were intimately involved with noriega in one way or another. i was able to confirm that to my satisfaction. that thed his habits way he lived? >> i think noriega was a man who liked control. he was not motivated by ideology. he was motivated to how our but control is the key. one sees that in everything he did. his sexual relationships, there was a matter of control. the way he ran a the panama defense systems. much more centrally control that under the dictator. then the defense forces took over control through law number 20 of

general noriega has rejected all of these efforts. last friday, noriega the a state of war with the united states. of the next day, the pdf shot down an unarmed american servicemen, one did another, seized another service man and sexually threatened his wife. under these circumstances the president decided he must act to violence.rther our troops will use only the force necessary to achieve the objectives and will be withdrawn as quickly as possible. at approximately midnight tonight, the democratically wereed leaders of panama sworn in and assumed the rightful positions. they welcome and support our actions and have stated their intention to institute democratic government immediately. the united states has recognize that government and will restore normal relations and will cooperate to rebuild a free and prosperous panama. >> at the direct of the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of state to lift withconomic sanctions regard to the democratically elected government of panama and in cooperation with that government to take

noriega was taken prisoner at the time and brought to the united states.st-show interview, we will continue that discussion about why the u.s. changed its view of him from the u.s.'s man to the u.s.'s prisoner. greg grandin and humberto brown and colonel wilkerson, thank for joining us. part two online at democracynow.org. ." [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

invasion of panama and the overthrow of manuel noriega.p delves into the history of in dictator. kemp was a journalist for "the wall street journal." he's now president and chief executive officer of the atlantic council. this is about an hour. "divorcing a dictator," america's bungled affair with noriega. in our epilogue you had the sentence, america, not noriega, is its own worst enemy. what do you mean? >> another sentence in the epilogue said foreign policy isn't made it just happens. i think that's what i'm saying is that the u.s.

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ambassador noriega, welcome to the program. you just heard congressman van hollen. know president obama today called the current policy a failure. why isn't this the right move now? >> well, the president's taken an extraordinarily dangerous bet. he has made unilateral concessions to the castro dictatorship, a dictatorship that's drawing its last breaths, by normalizing political relationships, diplomatic relationships, he confers a legitimacy on that regime that it doesn't deserve. if he's wrong in that bet-- and i note he didn't even ask for any changes from the cuban dictatorship-- if he's wrong on that bet, the people that will pay for it are the 11 million cubeans. alan gross was one hostage. there are 11 million hostages left behind. and it's extraordinarily important that the president understands that he can't just make a speech and walk away from this. he thoans now, and he needs to take vigorous steps to engage the latin american and caribbean countries, in particular, to press the regime to respect the fundamental freedoms of the cuban people are that den

next, frederick kempe discusses his book, "divorcing the dictator: america's bungled affair with noriega." anniversary ofnd o the invasion of panama. frederick kempe delves into the history of panama. mr. kemp was a journalist for the wall street journal or he is not president and chief executive officer of the atlantic council. this is about an hour.

who does that will be targeted, and he will be demonized and is demonized to the american people, noriega, putin, they well demonize him and tell the people this guy is an enemy of us, opposed to us. watch out for that. and once the people are convinced that this leader is a threat, then they will go along with the -- they feel our country has license to bomb people or attack or invade. i would urge readers to give critical perception -- i'll stop right here -- give critical perception not only to what we think but to how we think. we should, as best we can, be inventively critical and not let conventionality keep us skidding along the surfaces. there's something i wanted to say about surfaces and about -- oh, i can't find it. what are you going to do? it was about -- well, it was about -- that you can never judge these things by surfaces. i was thinking of fascism, and german naziism. you can't judge them by -- there was something else there that doesn't often get grabbed. you see it as sieg heil, goose-stepping, brutalizing religious minorities, military aggression, and that was fascism

on the phone, former assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, ambassador roger noriega you with us this morning. >> good morning. thanks for the opportunity. >> we've heard everything from this is a long time coming, overdue, to now rubio calling it absurd. part of a long record of coddling >> fid fidel's brother. my question is why now? you think the president is moving on this. whether he's just sorting through those things he can into the lame duck session or whether there's something more going on. >> i think the it's to the normalize things with cuba. and also hiss instincts for making unilateral [ inaudible ] this is a regime that was coming to an end. a measure that would resuscitate cuba and make that dictatorship, restore its pr s prestige in th region. most of the countries in latin america said that cuban should be --. and this hostage release is a pretext for moving on that front. >> we're also told that the vatican has played a key role here. more i'm sure we're learn as time goes by. to suggest it is a unilateral move surprises me. there are an often lot o