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    How Manuel Noriega surrendered to the sanity-destroying power of mallrat music

    US special forces know that bad music on loop can get the strongest opponent to surrender – from a Panamanian dictator to a Guantanamo detainee
    by Gavin Haynes May 30, 2017 2 minutes
    Surrender to the sound … Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. Photograph: William Gentile/Corbis via Getty Images

    It was a Christmas miracle. On 25 December 1989, Panamanian dictator , who has died this week, sought refuge in the Papal Nunciatura (the Vatican’s embassy in Panama). Noriega was facing a US indictment for narco-trafficking, as well as claims of electoral fraud. To smoke him – constant barrages of sound played from the speakers of encircling US army Humvees.

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