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

This did make the people of Panama hate Noriega a lot more for it. They then tried a military coup, but it did not work (Zmag n. pg.). Then the invasion occurred. The invasion got what it was supposed to do done pretty fast, it had a few problems though (Kehoe 1). By January most of the resistance was destroyed and they caught Noriega (Kehoe 1.).

international drug interdiction center for free. That is what Panama is doing to help in the war against drugs (Sullivan n. pg.). The United States is trying to help the Panamanian government and its economy by helping to create a good democracy and also training some new forces for the defense 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.

fraud and violence (Zmag n. pg.). The United States say they don't want drugs in their country yet they let a drug trafficker run the country of Panama.

The government thought he was doing a good job with the new democracy and thought it was a good model for other Central American countries. He was also doing everything that the United States pretty much wanted him to do. Really all they cared about was what they were getting out of it; they did not care about the pe

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