Unhappy Homecoming: Noriega Returns to Panama, Heads to Prison

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is back in his home country, more than two decades after the U.S. forced him from power, and he’s facing an unknown amount of jail time.

FOX News Radio’s Chris Hoenig reports:

Manuel Noriego is a prisoner, returning to the country to serve time for the deaths of two political rivals back in the 1980s.  The former dictator, not receiving the warmest welcome back home.

(Resident – Translated) “No one wants Noriega around here.”

Headlines spread across Panama City as Noriega’s flight made its way from Paris, disgusting some locals.

(Resident – Translated) “He committed massacres, a lot of innocent people died for what he did.  So I hope he pays.”

Noriega spent 17 years in a U.S. jail for drug trafficking before being extradited to Paris, where served time for money laundering.  He was captured by American forces in Panama City in 1989.

Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.