PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, a onetime U.S. ally who was ousted as Panama’s dictator by an American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age 83. The one-time U.S. ally was ousted as leader of Panama by an American invasion in 1989 and later served a 17-year drug sentence in the United States. In 2016, doctors detected the rapid growth of a benign brain tumor that had first been spotted four years earlier, and in the following January a court granted him house arrest to prepare for surgery on the tumor.
Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega dies aged 83.