As three Navy destroyers and three amphibious warships move toward the coast of Venezuela this weekend in an ostensible U.S.

It was the first in a series of wars against small, outmatched countries that posed no threat to the United States.

The Cold War, though, did force the United States to operate under the legitimacy of multilateralism, and that’s what gets swept away with Panama, with the invasion of Panama.

In the last dozen or so years of the twentieth century, the United States sent US military forces to Peru, Colombia, and Panama in the name of a war on ...

The US invasion also plunged many into poverty. The invasion, dubbed Operation Just Cause by the United States, was only aimed at protecting US interests, Ayola said.

PANAMA CITY, Panama — More than three decades after the United States invaded Panama, the families of victims continue to suffer from the wounds inflicted by the tragic event.

Our Man in Panama Operation Just Cause was carried out unilaterally, sanctioned neither by the United Nations nor the Organization of American States (OAS). In addition, the invasion was the first ...

Every single country other than the United States in the Organization of American States voted against the invasion of Panama, but by then it couldn’t have mattered less.

As a justification for the invasion, Bush cited Gen. Manual Noriega`s declaration that ”a state of war” exists between Panama and the United States.

The whole world rejoiced over the liberation of Eastern Europe. But the Organization of American States – the U.S. dissenting – voted unanimously to condemn the American invasion of Panama.

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.; The Threatened Trouble in Panama Mosquera's Movements and Intentions The Troops Allowed to Occupy the State Late Reports from Venezuela Desire of Caraccas to Join the ...