In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama. The objective was Manuel Noriega , a pineapple-faced general who’d risen to power in a coup d’etat and turned his small, Central American country into a pit stop for Pablo Escobar’s cocaine moving north. Noriega fled to the Vatican Embassy, where the US Army blasted heavy metal music until the opera-loving despot surrendered.

The commander-in-chief has signed an executive order greenlighting military action against Latin American mobs

The invasion of Panama took place when the war on drugs – at that time, crack cocaine – was a priority for the US government under George Bush Snr. Now, with the deadly opioid crisis and immigration on top of the agenda, Donald Trump might be treading in those footsteps. The commander-in-chief ha

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