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Panama City - Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital after suffering a possible stroke, police said on Sunday.
Noriega, 77, was moved from the El Renacer prison to the Hospital Santo Tomas because of high blood pressure and a possible stroke, police said in a statement. A police spokesperson had no further details.
Noriega was extradited back to Panama in December and he is serving a 20-year sentence for the murders of opponents during his rule.
He has spent the past two decades in prison - first in the United States and then France - for drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega was ousted from power in 1989 by an invading US force.
The one-time CIA protege returned to his homeland in a wheelchair, a diminished shadow of the man once known for waving a machete while delivering fiery speeches.
Noriega was tried and convicted in a Miami court in 1992 on eight counts of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering stemming from his time in power in the strategically located Central American nation. - Reuters
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