U.S. intervention in Panama

The U.S. has caused a lot of problems in Central American countries using intervention.

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

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