{"id":2575,"date":"2010-12-07T00:16:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abc-latina.com\/general_manuel_noriega-htm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:25:21","slug":"general_manuel_noriega","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abc-latina.com\/personnalites\/general_manuel_noriega\/","title":{"rendered":"Le GENERAL NORIEGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 102, 0); \"><strong>Manuel Antonio Noriega<\/strong><\/span> est n\u00e9 le 11 f\u00e9vrier 1934, d&rsquo;un p\u00e8re d\u00e9bauch\u00e9 et alcoolique, dans un mis\u00e9rable et tr\u00e8s pauvre quartier de Panama. Rien \u00e0 sa naissance ne laissait pr\u00e9sager que cet homme allait devenir la personne la plus puissante mais aussi la plus redout\u00e9e de tout le <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc-latina.com\/panama\/\">Panama<\/a>. Malgr\u00e9 sa petite taille, son physique peu athl\u00e9tique, son probl\u00e8me de peau et une intelligence dans la moyenne, il a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 se hisser, en 1983, \u00e0 la t\u00eate du pays. Son caract\u00e8re des plus patient et son habilit\u00e9 incontestable pour les intrigues lui permirent de r\u00e9ussir l\u00e0 o\u00f9 beaucoup de dictateurs \u00e9chou\u00e8rent.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Noriega a d\u00e9but\u00e9 sa carri\u00e8re militaire en entrant \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9cole militaire du <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc-latina.com\/perou\/\">P\u00e9rou<\/a> gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une bourse offerte par son pays. Pour obtenir cette bourse, il a d\u00fb avoir recours \u00e0 l&rsquo;aide son demi-fr\u00e8re qui poss\u00e9dait de nombreuses relations au sein du gouvernement panam\u00e9en. Tout au long de son ascension, l&rsquo;aide de son demi-fr\u00e8re lui sera toujours pr\u00e9cieuse et ce jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 sa mort tragique.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>C&rsquo;est aussi \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque qu&rsquo;il commen\u00e7a \u00e0 entretenir des liens avec le service de renseignement des \u00c9tats-Unis : la CIA. En \u00e9change d&rsquo;informations sur les mouvements gauchistes de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique du Sud, Noriega recevait des fonds de la CIA. Tout au long de sa carri\u00e8re militaire, il a su garder et am\u00e9liorer ses contacts au seins des agences gouvernementales am\u00e9ricaines. C&rsquo;est gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 ces fonds qu&rsquo;il a pu se forger un r\u00e9seau de contacts qui lui sera d&rsquo;une aide pr\u00e9cieuse pour son propre avancement dans la hi\u00e9rarchie militaire de son pays. Sans le soutient tactique et financier des Am\u00e9ricains, jamais Noriega n&rsquo;aurait pu se rendre ma\u00eetre de son pays. Cependant, il ne faut pas mettre tous les m\u00e9rites de sa progression rapide au sein de l&rsquo;arm\u00e9e \u00e0 la seule aide de la CIA. Noriega a le don de se mettre toujours du bon c\u00f4t\u00e9 des intrigues et des complots. Et \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, les renversements de r\u00e9gimes \u00e9taient choses courantes.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>A sa sortie de l&rsquo;\u00e9cole militaire, il obtint le grade de lieutenant et alla servir dans la Garde Nationale panam\u00e9enne. C&rsquo;est durant cette premi\u00e8re affectation qu&rsquo;il put se faire conna\u00eetre de ses sup\u00e9rieurs en pourchassant et torturant tous les opposants du r\u00e9gime en place. C&rsquo;est aussi \u00e0 ce moment qu&rsquo;il commen\u00e7a \u00e0 mettre en place ce qui sera plus tard la base de son service de renseignement panam\u00e9en.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>En 1968, \u00e0 la suite d&rsquo;un coup d&rsquo;\u00c9tat o\u00f9 il joua un r\u00f4le important, il fut nomm\u00e9 lieutenant colonel et responsable, sous le nouveau r\u00e9gime du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral Torrijos, du service tout entier de renseignement panam\u00e9en : le G-2. Ce service va permettre \u00e0 Noriega de rassembler des informations sur toutes les personnalit\u00e9s importantes du Panama. Cette manne d&rsquo;information va lui permettre d&rsquo;assurer son emprise grandissante sur le pays. Il faut attendre la mort de Torrijos et l&rsquo;arriv\u00e9e d&rsquo;un nouveau dictateur, le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Dario Paredes, pour que Noriega obtienne le titre de chef d&rsquo;\u00e9tat major des arm\u00e9es panam\u00e9ennes. Avec ce nouveau titre et son service de renseignement panam\u00e9en, Noriega \u00e9tait, dans les faits, l&rsquo;homme le plus puissant de tout le Panama.<\/div>\n<div>Cependant, il ne restera pas longtemps \u00e0 ce poste. Apr\u00e8s avoir r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 \u00e9carter Parades du pouvoir, il fit \u00e9lire un premier pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 la t\u00eate du Panama : Nicolas Berletta. Celui-ci se mettra \u00e0 dos Noriega en demandant une enqu\u00eate ind\u00e9pendante sur le meurtre d&rsquo;une personnalit\u00e9 politique connue du pays. Comme Noriega et ses acolytes \u00e9taient responsable de ce meurtre, ils ne pouvaient se permettre permettre que l&rsquo;enqu\u00eate puisse un jour voir le jour. C&rsquo;est pourquoi Noriega d\u00e9poss\u00e9da Barletta et se nomma lui m\u00eame g\u00e9n\u00e9ral en chef des arm\u00e9es en 1983.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Ensuite, de 1983 \u00e0 1989, Noriega commen\u00e7a \u00e0 \u00e9prouver de s\u00e9rieuses difficult\u00e9s diplomatiques avec le gouvernement des \u00c9tats-Unis. Certains s\u00e9nateurs am\u00e9ricains commenc\u00e8rent \u00e0 s&rsquo;inqui\u00e9ter d\u00fb nombres grandissants d&rsquo;all\u00e9gations dans les journaux am\u00e9ricains selon lesquelles Noriega s&rsquo;adonnerait au trafic de la drogue, d&rsquo;armes et de blanchiment d&rsquo;argent. La situation, dans les faits, \u00e9taient pire que cela. Noriega avait transform\u00e9 le Panama en un v\u00e9ritable paradis pour tous les trafiquants en facilitant le transport de la drogue, en mettant \u00e0 leurs dispositions les institutions financi\u00e8res du pays et m\u00eame en accueillant sur son territoire des trafiquants notoires tel que Pablo Escobar. Il vendait m\u00eame des renseignements, obtenus par la DEA am\u00e9ricaine, aux trafiquants de drogue, corrompait les agents de la CIA et il \u00e9tait en contact avec les services de renseignements cubains et isra\u00e9liens pour ne nommer que ces deux l\u00e0.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Ce qui permit \u00e0 Noriega de s&rsquo;en sortir aussi longtemps \u00e9tait \u00e0 la fois simple et g\u00e9niale. Il s&rsquo;arrangeait pour \u00eatre toujours indispensable aux yeux des am\u00e9ricains. Car bien qu&rsquo;il trahissait les Am\u00e9ricains, il trahissait aussi tous ses autres partenaires. Il renseignait la CIA sur tous les mouvements r\u00e9volutionnaires de gauche, la DEA sur certains trafiquants de drogue et prot\u00e9geait les int\u00e9r\u00eats am\u00e9ricains du canal de Panama. C&rsquo;est pourquoi, pendant de nombreuses ann\u00e9es ils ferm\u00e8rent les yeux sur le trafic de la drogue, d&rsquo;armes et de documents panam\u00e9ens qu&rsquo;il faisait. Cependant, \u00e0 la suite de r\u00e9v\u00e9lations concernant Noriega et ses diff\u00e9rentes activit\u00e9s criminelles dans les m\u00e9dias am\u00e9ricains, les responsables du renseignement aux \u00c9tats-Unis n&rsquo;arriv\u00e8rent plus \u00e0 emp\u00eacher les fonctionnaires de la justice de porter des accusations. Ce fut le d\u00e9but de la fin pour Noriega, car le pays fut envahi en 1989 par un d\u00e9barquement de forces sp\u00e9ciales am\u00e9ricaines. Noriega fut sans peine captur\u00e9 et extrad\u00e9 au \u00c9tats-Unis. Finalement, en 1992 aux \u00c9tats-Unis, Noriega fut condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 40 ans de prison pour trafic de drogue et blanchiment d&rsquo;argent.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"tsource\">Source fsa.ulaval.ca<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel Antonio Noriega est n\u00e9 le 11 f\u00e9vrier 1934, d&rsquo;un p\u00e8re d\u00e9bauch\u00e9 et alcoolique, dans un mis\u00e9rable et tr\u00e8s pauvre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2633,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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