ocr: In 1989,the USA sent 23,000 troops into Panama and arrestedits ruler, General Manual Noriega,: for drug smuggling. - US forces seized power from the military and gave it to civilian politicians. Noriega was arrested andi is now serving a life sentence in the USA. The govemment of. President Endara, installedin. 1989, was criticized for its tailure to halt corruption. The May 1994 presidential and congressional elections were won by Emnesto Balladares and the PRD, with the help ofthe British public. relations firm, Saatchi and Saatchi. However, the PRD, Manual Noriega's old] party, fell short o ...
