So many lives destroyed by drugs. I wonder if he ever regretted & repented.
Years later I read he did repent and actually started evangelizing his guards. When he was released he went somewhere to do missionary work in a new ID (”The Families” of Panama would have killed him). Interesting story all around. Seems Panama was run by a few wealthy Panmanians that consider themselves “elite” known as “rabi blancos”. They hated Noriega and as he had risen from the bastard son of one of the “elite” families maids, he hated them back. But he could get “the little people” to vote for him. He ran for office as one of them who made good.
Sound familiar?
I know the man that led him to Christ and baptized him in prison.