On December 20, 1989 President George H. W. Bush addressed the deteriorating situation then occurring in Panama. He stated: Operation Just Cause: the Invasion of Panama, December 1989 ...

And as Panama's supreme leader in 1983, Noriega helped the United States avert a major conflict with Cuba during President Ronald Reagan's gunboat invasion of Grenada, by acting as a go-between ...

Operation Just Cause, the United States' invasion of Panama, was a long time coming. Critics of the invasion denounced it as an illegal military action, but the U.S. cited evidence Panamanian ...

On this day in 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama. Dubbed “Operation Just Cause,” its prime purpose was to depose and capture Manuel Noriega, the country’s ...

Until 1979, the occupied Panama Canal Zone had been sovereign territory of the United States. The Panama Canal was scheduled to be turned over to Panama partially in 1990 and fully in 2000.

Every single country other than the United States in the Organization of American States voted against the invasion of Panama, but by then it couldn’t have mattered less. Bush acted anyway.

Panama declared a day of national mourning for Friday, the 30th anniversary of the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega and resulted in hundreds of deaths in the Central American nation.

The Cold War, though, did force the United States to operate under the legitimacy of multilateralism, and that’s what gets swept away with Panama, with the invasion of Panama. And it does set ...

The Bush administration`s invasion of Panama on Wednesday morning was illegal, ... Bush cited Gen. Manual Noriega`s declaration that ”a state of war” exists between Panama and the United States.

The United States has largely used its might for good. But either way, in the raw and lawless world of international relations, ”legality” was irrelevant. Which brings us to the moral question.

Every single country other than the United States in the Organization of American States voted against the invasion of Panama, but by then it couldn’t have mattered less. Bush acted anyway.

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