Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator ...

In mid-December 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered a military invasion of Panama, saying its strongman leader, Manuel Noriega, a one-time American ally and CIA informant, was a threat to U.S.

Mr. Hogan teaches in the history and literature program at Harvard. His research focuses on Central America and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the large U.S. military force ...

Washington’s 1989 invasion of Panama is often invoked as a model for dealing with Nicolás Maduro today. But the analogy goes only so far. In Panama, U.S. forces were already stationed in the Canal ...