One of the United States' biggest problems is with interfering in other nations business. The United States has intervened with many countries when they were in trouble. Such countries as Panama, Vietnam and Iraq have all been messed up by the United States. The United States gets greedy some times and waits to help a country only after it gets what it wanted. The only time the United States helps a country is if it will help themselves in the long run, it seems clear that with Panama, the United States had a few purposes to do that. Here are a few examples.

In 1985 when Torrijos, who was the dictator of Panama, died that took care of one of the United States' problems, but it made another (Millett n. pg.). Manuel Noriega, a drug trafficking gangster, took over and was the new dictator. Some people would wonder how a person involved in drug trafficking was the leader of a country. That was easy for him, the United States did not want to stop him. In 1986 the United States praised him for his anti-drug trafficking policy and his version of a democracy (Zmag n. pg.). Eventually the United States had to do something to take care

Back during the 70's the Nixon administration thought about assassinating Noriega because he was helping with the drug trafficking (Zmag n. pg.). They did not get him when they had the chance because he was helping the United States with the war in Nicaragua and the United States was using Panama for the canal. The United States needed a guy that they could control to run Panama (Zmag n. pg.).

Millett, Richard L. "Aftermath of Intervention in Panama 1990" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs Spring 1990, 15 pg.'s pg.1

Chomsky, Noam "Invasion of Panama."

It seems clear that the United States has a serious problem. It does not do a good job with foreign affairs in Central America. For one they let Noriega in charge of a nation that we needed to have some control in. The United States did try their best to get rid of Noriega, but they waited to long. By not doing anything all the United States did was cause more suffering on the people of Panama. The United States should have probably known that eventually they would have to get rid of Noriega some time in the future.

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