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@article_2:document -> published in -> @new_york_timesSkip to contentSkip to site indexSection Navigation SEARCH GIVE THE TIMES Account Trump Administration Senate Shutdown Deal SNAP Benefits Tariff Tracker Approval Rating How the Heavy-Metal Fall of a Dictator Shapes Trump’s Venezuela Plans Seizing Panama’s leader was relatively easy. But the similarities between Panama and Venezuela are dangerously misleading, some analysts warn. Listen to this article · 9:00 min Learn more Share full article A man holding a television walks past an armored vehicle on a street in Panama. American troops patrolling the streets of Panama after invading in 1989.Credit...Steven D. Starr/Corbis, via Getty Images Michael Crowley By Michael Crowley Reporting from Washington Nov. 11, 2025 Updated 1:55 p.m. ET Leer en español It is a story the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro surely knows well. A Latin American strongman was in hiding, surrounded by American troops, heavy metal blaring through the night. In December 1989, Gen. Manuel Noriega’s run as dictator of Panama was reaching a humiliating end. American troops had invaded the country with orders to capture Mr. Noriega and bring him to trial. They would wind up surrounding his final hide-out, tormenting him for 10 days with loudspeakers blasting songs from the likes of Black Sabbath and Guns N’ Roses until he surrendered into handcuffs. Today, as President Trump considers military action in Venezuela, the parallels between Mr. Noriega and Mr. Maduro grow more and more significant, and some Trump officials hope the Venezuelan president will meet a similar fate. Like Mr. Noriega more than 30 years ago, Mr. Maduro has been federally indicted on drug trafficking charges. And U.S. officials maintain that the Venezuelan is not a foreign leader but a criminal who must be “brought to justice,” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said. In a national address announcing the invasion of Panama, President George H.W. Bush laid out his grounds for moving against Mr. Noriega, a defiant nationalist who brandished a machete in public and hosted cocaine-fueled parties at his lavish mansions. They included Mr. Noriega’s dictatorial rule, concerns about the security of the Panama Canal, and the brash general’s increasing hostility toward the United States. (In a final straw, Mr. Noriega’s forces had killed a U.S. Marine at a roadblock.) Image A soldier with a gun waving to a helicopter that is landing. American troops invaded Panama to depose the country’s leader, Manuel Noriega.Credit...Manoocher Deghati/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images But Mr. Bush also stressed Mr. Noriega’s status as a wanted criminal. The Justice Department had indicted him on charges of taking huge bribes in return for letting drug traffickers ship cocaine through his country. “I directed our armed forces to protect the lives of American citizens in Panama and to bring General Noriega to justice in the United States,” Mr. Bush said. For Mr. Noriega, escape was never an option. As Operation Just Cause began, a team of Navy SEALs crept onto an airfield and blasted Mr. Noriega’s personal Learjet with an anti-tank gun. SEAL divers sank a potential getaway boat with explosives. In all, some 27,000 American troops deployed. As the assault began, a panicked Mr. Noriega, accompanied by a mistress, wove through Panama City in an unmarked Hyundai and went into hiding. At one point, he ducked incognito into a Dairy Queen before taking refuge in the embassy of the Holy See in Panama City. Delta Force commandos and U.S. Army tanks quickly surrounded the building, which they could not storm, and demanded his surrender. When he refused, the music kicked in. The playlist was designed for maximum stress — and ridicule: Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive,” Van Halen’s “Panama,” Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Image An American soldier holding a large speaker on a street. An American soldier playing loud music through speakers outside the Vatican Embassy compound in Panama City.Credit...Michael Stravato/Associated Press Brent Scowcroft, who was serving as national security adviser to Mr. Bush, later called the tactic “a low moment in U.S. Army history.” But Mr. Noriega eventually surrendered and was hauled to Florida for trial. (The general’s years of service as a secret C.I.A. asset providing intelligence about Latin America were not enough to save him.) He was convicted and spent the rest of his life in prison until just before his death in 2017 in a Panamanian hospital after brain surgery. Mr. Noriega may be gone, but his story has not been forgotten — not by Mr. Maduro or Trump administration officials, many of whom have spent years trying to topple the Venezuelan leader. Mr. Noriega’s capture sometimes came up during debates in Mr. Trump’s first term about how to deal with Mr. Maduro, according to two former officials from the time. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, then the national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence and now a presidential envoy to Ukraine, had firsthand experience in Panama as an infantry assault commander during the operation. Image Drug Enforcement agents restraining Mr. Noriega on a military flight to the United States.Credit...U.S. Government, via Associated Press Among the options Trump officials considered at the time were a large-scale U.S. invasion of the country and “a smaller, special operation targeted directly at Maduro,” Mr. Trump’s former defense secretary Mark Esper wrote in a 2022 memoir. But the similarities between Panama 1989 and Venezuela 2025 are dangerously misleading, some analysts warn. Any U.S. effort to apprehend or kill Mr. Maduro, they say, would be far more treacherous than the operation to corral Mr. Noriega. “When people talk very loosely and say, ‘Well, we’ll just take him out,’ it’s useful to recall 1989,” said Michael Shifter, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service with extensive experience in Latin America. “When one confronts the realities of what it would require, you conclude how crazy it would be to commit American troops for regime change in Venezuela,” he added. Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. efforts to depose hostile Latin American rulers have largely been failures. They include Mr. Trump’s own unsuccessful first-term push to oust Mr. Maduro, which sought to capitalize on the street protests across Venezuela in 2019. Image Civilians clashing with security forces on motorcycles on a street. In 2019, thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in protest.Credit...Matias Delacroix/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Still, experts say the similarities between 1989 and today must be unsettling to Mr. Maduro. “There are parallels,” said Elliott Abrams, who served as U.S. special envoy for Venezuela during Mr. Trump’s first term. “One is that the guy running the government is someone we do not view as a legitimate head of government. And both are drug traffickers.” In September, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Mr. Maduro was “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world.” The Venezuelan leader, she added, “will not escape justice.” And like Mr. Noriega, who ran Panama though puppet politicians, Mr. Maduro is considered an illegitimate ruler by the United States because of the fraudulent elections that have kept him in power since 2013. Trump officials say he is more accurately described as a criminal cartel leader. As a Republican senator from Florida in 2019, Mr. Rubio posted images on Twitter of several toppled dictators in what was widely seen as a warning to Mr. Maduro, as domestic unrest and U.S. pressure mounted. They included before-and-after shots of Mr. Noriega — first waving his machete before a crowd, next posing for his federal mug shot. More recently, Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida and an ally of Mr. Rubio’s, warned in a late September interview that Mr. Maduro might “rot in jail for the rest of his life like Noriega.” Mr. Trump may be deterred from major military action in Venezuela by the scale of the challenge. Panama was an easy target — a small country with a weak military, and in 1989, U.S. troops were already stationed there guarding the Panama Canal. Venezuela is about 12 times larger than Panama, with a population more than 10 times greater than Panama’s in 1989. And even the puny Panama Defense Forces put up enough resistance to kill 23 U.S. troops, including four of the elite Navy SEALS who carried out the assault on Mr. Noriega’s jet. The United States has estimated that 314 Panamanian soldiers and 202 civilians died during the operation. Mr. Maduro also enjoys a “highly skilled” inner ring of protection, Mr. Abrams said, with an elite force of bodyguards supplied by his close political allies in nearby Cuba. Mr. Maduro, in other words, would be unlikely to be found hiding out in a Dairy Queen. But like Mr. Maduro, Mr. Noriega was also defiant to the end. In April 1988, he thrilled a crowd when he concluded a fiery anti-U.S. speech by smashing a podium with his machete. “This machete represents the dignity and courage of the Panamanian people,” Mr. Noriega said. “It says, ‘not one step back.’” Image Nicolas Maduro surrounded by security officers and the public asking questions. Mr. Maduro enjoys a “highly skilled” inner ring of protection with an elite force of bodyguards supplied by his close political allies in nearby Cuba.Credit...Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press Just as Mr. Noriega rejected U.S. efforts to negotiate his exit from power, Mr. Maduro has similarly refused to step down, instead offering Mr. Trump a U.S. stake in his country’s mineral wealth. The Venezuelan leader has also invoked the memory of 1989, weaving it into a larger narrative about his defiance of what he calls American imperialism. During a visit to Panama City in 2015, Mr. Maduro stopped to lay a wreath at a memorial to Panamanians killed in the U.S. invasion. “Never again a U.S. invasion in Latin America,” he declared. Michael Crowley covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The Times. He has reported from nearly three dozen countries and often travels with the secretary of state. 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article-5.md Skip to contentSkip to site indexSection Navigation SEARCH GIVE THE TIMES Account Trump Administration Senate Shutdown Deal SNAP Benefits Tariff Tracker Approval Rating Sanders Looks to Flex the Left’s Power With Senate Endorsement in Minnesota Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left. Listen to this article · 3:19 min Learn more Share full article 154 Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaking behind a lectern at the Capitol and gesturing with his hands. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent, is still one of the most popular politicians among Democratic voters, and remains determined to reshape the party in his image. Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times Shane Goldmacher By Shane Goldmacher Nov. 10, 2025 Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is wading ever more deeply into the Democratic Party’s ideological tug of war, endorsing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota in her contested primary race to replace the retiring Senator Tina Smith, a Democrat. The move is Mr. Sanders’s third endorsement in a competitive primary for Senate. Ms. Flanagan, who was elected twice as the running mate of Gov. Tim Walz, is facing off against Representative Angie Craig, a Democrat. Their race is one of many primaries next year that will help determine the direction of the party. In a statement provided first to The New York Times, Mr. Sanders hailed Ms. Flanagan as having “the guts to stand up for working people against the billionaires and the corporate interests.” Mr. Sanders, 84, an independent, was the runner-up in the last two competitive Democratic presidential primaries. Still one of the party’s most popular politicians, he remains determined to reshape it in his image. He has already endorsed progressive candidates in open Democratic Senate races in Michigan and Maine next year. His latest endorsement comes a day after moderates in the Senate struck an agreement with Republicans to move toward reopening the federal government after the longest shutdown in history. The deal ignited outrage on the left, including from Mr. Sanders. Image Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota speaking into a microphone against a dark background. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota is facing off against Representative Angie Craig in the state’s Democratic primary race for Senate. Credit...Abbie Parr/Associated Press “I think the future rests with those of us who are going to stand with the working class, take on the oligarchs, take on massive levels of income and wealth inequality, and come up with an agenda and improve lives for ordinary people,” Mr. Sanders said in an interview last week ahead of his most recent endorsement. On one side of the Minnesota race is Ms. Flanagan, who has endorsed Mr. Sanders’s longtime priority of “Medicare for all,” and who last week accused her rival in an interview of being a “corporate Democrat.” “We must take on the big fights that will actually make life more affordable, not just the fights we think we can win,” she said in a statement, adding that she was proud to accept Mr. Sanders’s endorsement. On the other side is Ms. Craig, who flipped a battleground seat from Republicans in 2018 and cast herself in an interview last week as a “gets stuff done” Democrat. She highlighted her efforts to push provisions of legislation that ultimately capped the price of insulin at $35 for those on Medicare. “I’m the kind of Democrat who is going to question my own party at times and whether we’re doing the right thing,” Ms. Craig said, noting that she had challenged a more senior member of her party to became the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee. Ms. Flanagan has earned endorsements from several other high-profile progressives, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, but notably, her running mate, Mr. Walz, has yet to endorse a candidate. Ms. Craig, for her part, has the backing of a number of influential Democrats in the party, including Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader; Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin; and Representative Nancy Pelosi, the longtime Democratic leader in the House. Shane Goldmacher is a Times national political correspondent. A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 11, 2025, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: Sanders Hits The Hustings To Endorse Progressives. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe See more on: Bernard Sanders, Democratic Party, U.S. Politics Read 154 comments Share full article 154 Related Content Site Index Site Information Navigation © 2025 The New York Times Company NYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapHelpSubscriptions
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