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this section:  Guillermo Endara, who led Panama after the dictatorship, has died On the afternoon of
September 28, President Guillermo Endara Galimany died in his home of a
massive heart attack. He was 73 years old.
As a pro-democracy activist, then as a candidate, then as president-elect, he braved threats and beatings by the dictatorship's goons. Then as the nation's chief executive from 1989 to 1994 he resisted corrupting pressures by people allegedly on his side. Installed in office during the 1989 US invasion after massively winning an election that General Manuel Antonio Noriega tried to ignore, Endara inherited an empty treasury and was expected by some to become a jovial puppet, either for Washington or the politicians around him. He turned out to be his own man, and although his administration failed in many ways and ended up deeply unpopular, he turned over leadership of an independent country with money in the bank to his successor from the opposition party. Coming to office after more than 21 years of dictatorship, Endara could have been a tyrant in a mirror image of those who came before him. That he didn't do this is alone reason for Panamanians to owe him a huge debt of gratitude. Photo from the Endara presidency, taken from Mr. Endara's Facebook page Also in
this section:
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