Manuel Noriega

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On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro led a successful coup against the government in Cuba which at the time was controlled by Fulgencio Batista. By Castro taking control of the Cuban government, he placed communism within a close range of America. This was important because it was feared by most Americans that this takeover by Castro would lead a domino effect throughout Central America, and third world countries further extending the arm of Communism and the reach of the Soviet Union.
During the same time Castro took control of Cuba, Noriega was in the Peruvian military school. America fearing that these third world military schools would be a breeding ground for future communist leaders, implanted many agents to keep watch over them. One of these recruitment’s would be . America first employed Noriega in these early years to inform them on the schools leftist teachings and slowly helped and inspired him to become one of America’s best assets and later their worst enemy.
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time that he was Chief of intelligence he was smuggling guns to help Salvadoran rebels fight against the government of El Salvador. Even though America was backing the government in El Salvador, Noriega “ had no hesitancy in selling arms to the rebels” (Johnson pg.246).
The situation in Central America in reference to the Cold War was that the Sandanistan Government who was backed by Castro and ultimately the Soviet Union, controlled Nicaragua and helped supply arms and money to El Salvador rebels to overthrow their Government. America could not stand for this to happen, and the theory was that “One by one the Central American states would fall until the entire area ...

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