Enemy Within: Casting Out Panama's Demon - Hardcover

Kenneth Jones

9789990553154: Enemy Within: Casting Out Panama's Demon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9990553157 ISBN 13: 9789990553154

Publisher: Focus Pub., 1990

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Pictoral history of US invasion of Panama in 1989. 160pp, numerous BW and color photos.

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This book is a work of journalism, not sholarship. It is intended as a record and a souvenir of the most traumatic event in the history of the relatively young nation of Panama. Apart from recounting the story of the attack and the events leading up to that fateful day, December 20th, 1989 when the United States threw the crushing weight of its armed forces into the Republic in a fierce assault on the army of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the book is a brief history of the republic with specific reference to the role that the U.S.A. has always played.

There will be many other books by authors far more competent to make judgements about the invasion on Panama. The information available about the attack itself is scarce. The U.S. Southern Command had version of its activities available at the time of going to press. Perhaps it will feel itself accountable in due course and declassify its after-action reports sufficiently for the public to have a record. On the Panamanian side, the Panama Defense Forces cannot speak, for they had ceased to exist by dawn of Day One of the invasion. Its ex-members, all but a reported 400 of whom survived, do not give a very coherent account. Civilians stayed in their homes and watched what network television could show them of the war.

The photographs have been selected from thousands submitted by amateurs and professionals in Panama and from international picture agencies representing the work of foreign photo-journalists who covered the war and its aftermath.

About the invasion of their sovereign territory, no Panamanian feels happy but most feel that it was the lesser of two evils - ridding Panama of a tyrant and a despotic regime was a job that had to be done and apparently could not be done by Panamanians alone. One of the intentions of this book is to show the Panamanian struggle which the Americans finished off.

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