by Manuel Antonio Noriega
October 15, 2009
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Infancy & Youth
by Manuel Antonio Noriega
October 15, 2009
I was born on a Tuesday during Carnaval; when the cars of the comparsas began to parade. Doña MarĂa Ofelia Moreno Felix MejĂa was taken urgently to maternity to give birth to her son; born of the single union with the public accountant Don Ricaurte Tomás Noriega.
Mr. Noriega personally signed his child (me) with his father’s name Manuel Antonio Noriega Escala; who was a lawyer who graduated in Bogotá, Colombia, and had been General of the liberal forces in the war against the conservatives, called “The Thousand Days’ War”.
After a year, Doña MarĂa Felix Ofelia Moreno MejĂa moved with me, her child, back to her family home to the city of Yaviza of the Darien province, jungle border with Colombia.
She settled in the family house of her mother Narcisa MejĂa and began to work the land. She brought with her two daughters of her brothers and adopted an indigenous Kuna child, of who abounded in this productive region of plantains, rubber, fruit, avocado, gold mines; in an area of confluence of market, where Rios Chucunaque and Tuira unite in a “Y” figure; and they gave value to a jungle market, where merchant ships arrived from Panama and large canoes or kayaks border regions of Colombia.
It was a cosmopolitan area of domestic and foreign adventurers who made exchanges and purchases of rice, cocoa, corn, yuca, plantains, smoked meat of mountains, skins of tigers, pumas. You’d see foreigners and Germans exploding mines in Cana; Belgians, French who bought “raicilla”, eucalyptus, and other products botanical products.