Quotes in “The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega” | Notion

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You can call me names, you can agree with me or not, or you can judge me by the size and treachery of my enemies.

The story Jose del Carmen told us was a tale of conquerors and the vanquished, the Spaniards in their massive force against the Indians, subjugated Indian chiefs, indigenous people imprisoned, roped up and carried back to Europe as trophies of their conquest.

In the business of government and politics, you can trust no one.

A new thinking, a new concept of what it meant to be a Panamanian.

What is true about Torrijos is that he had a social conscience, a sense of concern for the peasant class, for the workers, and for that reason, some called him a socialist and others called him a communist.

The fact is that the United States waged war on an innocent country and killed thousands of Panamanians for no good reason at all.

These are all images used by George Bush to soften the public for the carnage that took place on December 20th, 1989, to create the image of an insane fighter, just another mad dictator who dared to challenge the supremacy of the United States.

It's important to say that I don't consider my words to be a defense.

As a result of these dealings, it is always inferred that I was some sort of U.S. agent, which was never the case.

A new concept of what it meant to be a Panamanian.

My life under American imprisonment has

I have been denied

Finally, factor in that you were a gutless man of weak character, a hypocrite, a liar, George Bush.

Even in the depths of our bad relations with the Americans, certain intelligence information was protected.

He believed that Panama's entire history could be understood by attention to the detail of history, hidden details that explain men's actions, that the only way for future Panamanian generations to overcome domination and humiliation was to understand and analyze the errors of the past.

He demanded that I absorb the lessons of history.