The Panama Deception

00:00:16 The shooting began at midnight. Everyone ran toward their home.

00:06:37 just about total collaboration with the administration.

00:09:52 Where black people could not live in the same home

00:13:26 8 months later, on the night of July 31, 1981

00:16:41 the administration itself has made available,

00:20:44 Oliver North was fired, Poindexter was forced to resign

00:24:01 Economic sanctions were stepped up

00:27:19 The violence in Panama escalated sharply this evening when government goons

00:30:26 to rise up against Noriega and we would have to do this job ourselves

00:34:05 ...what US officials called: An example of general Noriega's cruelty and brutality.

00:37:35 they tried to run out to get water to hose it.

00:41:32 President Bush wanted to make certain that this was going to be a success.

00:45:24 One woman told human rights investigators how her brother

00:48:46 The north American troops took our tapes

00:53:12 had its offices raided and destroyed.

00:56:41 of progressive parties, of left parties in Panama.

01:01:28 There is no medical attention. And the children!

01:04:59 The truth of the matter is that we don't even know how many Panamanians we have killed.

01:08:30 They focused utter ethno-centrism only on American lives.

01:13:08 it's clear that this invasion was illegal. It's not debatable.

01:16:35 He had had the, what now seems to be, the necessary 'blooding'

01:20:21 Of course he is not going to say that Panama is occupied,

01:23:48 make no mention of eliminating the Panamanian Defense Forces,

01:27:48 that would for ever abolish Panama's right to have an army.