Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (born 1934)

Manuel Noriega

Military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal…

List of heads of state of Panama

This article lists the heads of state of Panama since the short-lived first independence from the Republic of New Granada in 1840 and the final separation from Colombia in 1903. Since 1904 the head of state of Panama has been the President of Panama.