Panama Gets A New Tourist Attraction - Manuel Antonio Noriega
By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - I can hear it now. Dozens of cruise ships carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers make their way through the Panama Canal every year. Aboard those vessels are local area experts who - aided by microphones - explain to the passengers what they are seeing as the ships slowly make their way through the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific or vice versa. And now with the incarceration of the former military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega in the El Renacer prison, located literally on the "banks of the Panama Canal", you can be sure he will become a new attraction mentioned during every passage. You can also get a close up view of the El Renacer prison if you hop on the train from Panama City to Colon - the train tracks run right behind the prison, spitting distance away from Noriega. Former military dictator, drug trafficker, money launderer, murderer, and now tourist attraction. Hey, at least he's giving something back, right? Peanuts, get ch'ur peanuts...
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