title: The Noriega Mess: The Drugs, the Canal, and Why America Invaded
author:  Luis E. Murillo 
description: <span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">Monumental the definitive and indispensable history of modern Panama  Murillo places special attention on the period spanning 1968 to 1990 and there is no detail that escapes his pen. All is here; narrated straightforwardly but with encyclopedic coverage More than 100 pages of footnotes which are a treasure... Similarly, the eight appendices contain information impossible to obtain in other sources for many readers. The first appendix, for example, reproduces in its entirety the official Miami indictment against Noriega List of Southcom commanders, U.S. ambassadors, Panama presidents<br />-- Betty Brannan, reporting from Washington for La Prensa, the largest daily in Panama</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text"><br />I consumed it with much interest and gained great instruction from it<br />-- John le Carr, British novelist, author of The Tailor of Panama</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">I found much I didnt know and nothing I could dispute<br />-- R. M. Koster, coauthor of In the Time of the Tyrants, expert witness on the Noriega problem in the U.S. Congress</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">Accurate, well researched, the best up-to-date source on Panama and the Canal<br />-- Dr. Miguel Antonio Bernal, professor, Florida State University Panama Canal Campus</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">The 1096 page long tome by Luis Murillo "The Noriega Mess" is a fascinating read (it could be an action movie, I think) and packed with information of all kinds -very well researched<br />-- T. White, biologist, Zoneten.com </span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">For the real history of Panama, as told by Panamanians that spent more time in Panama than Trent and the Panama Deception producers, I recommend (Both available from amazon.com): In the Time of the Tyrants by R. Koster and G. Sanchez, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-02696-5, 1990 and The Noriega Mess by L. Murillo , VideoBooks, ISBN 0-923444-02-5, 1995<br />-- Comment on the Oscar winning documentary The Panama Deception, Amazon client</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text"><br />I believe this book is a MUST READ for anyone living in the country. Chiriqui Province is included in much of the text, which is supported by a large Appendix in the back, to verify the facts and offer additional resources to the reader. I now feel that I have a complete knowledge of the recent history of the country, and am so proud of my new home. It has struggled much, and it has survived to be a place of beauty and tranquility today. Reading this will cause the reader to be patient and understanding of this country in transition...<br />-- Recommending The Noriega Mess  Boquete Community Forums</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text">Indispensable for the serious Panama scholar<br />-- Brittmarie Janson Perez, PhD, University of Texas, author of doctoral thesis and books on Panama</span><br /><br /><span id="caseCorrespondence_24577832875_text"><br />I bought it from Amazon and couldn't put it down. It wasn't the kind of book I would have normally purchased, but I'm glad I did. Very well written.<br />-- Recommending The Noriega Mess  Boquete Community Forums</span>
zlib_text: **Graham Greene - Power and the Glory**  
    
   **PART I**  
    
   **Chapter One**  
  
    
  
  MR. TENCH went out to look for his ether cylinder: out into the blazing
  Mexican sun and the bleaching dust. A few buzzards looked down from the roof
  with shabby indifference: he wasn't carrion yet. A faint feeling of rebellion
  stirred in Mr. Tench's heart, and he wrenched up a piece of the road with
  splintering finger-nails and tossed it feebly up at them. One of them rose and
  flapped across the town: over the tiny plaza, over the bust of an ex-
  president, ex-general, ex-human being, over the two stalls which sold mineral
  water, towards the river and the sea. It wouldn't find anything there: the
  sharks looked after the carrion on that side. Mr. Tench went on across the
  plaza.  
    
  He said "Buenos días" to a man with a gun who sat in a small patch of shade
  against a wall. But it wasn't like England: the man said nothing at all, just
  stared malevolently up at Mr. Tench, as if he had never had any dealin