Noriega legal team told to keep mum about defense strategy

Panama’s former dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega has ordered his lawyers, led by his daughter Lorena Noriega, to keep silent  about his defense strategy.

He met with  one of his legal team Julio Berrios after in the El Renacer prison in Gamboa, for t 2 hours and 40 minutes on Tuesday.

Berrios was accompanied by another alleged lawyer who declined to be identified and refused to speak to media waiting outside the jail.said La Then, in a private conversation with the newspaper, he confirmed that Noriega asked  Berrios to remain silent, and warned that "the customer is the boss" 

The other members of the defense team are Lorraine Noriega Noriega, Gisela Vega and Ramon Arosemena.

100 “DISAPPEARED”
Meanwhile, the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared denounced  "privileges" given to Noriega during  his transfer to prison, and  demanded State respect for human rights and victims' relatives who disappeared during the military dictatorship, which, according to the Truth Commission total over 100 .

The committee, plans to  meet with Foreign Ministry officials to demand financial and moral compensation for the families of the victims.

A spokesman also confirmed, confirmed that members of the Association of Anthropologists in Argentina  are coming to Panama to work on identifying more than 60 human remains found by the Truth Commission.

THE FLIP SIDE
On the other side of the coin, Enrique Rubio Arrocha, who said he is Noriega's friend, went to the prison with a letter to former dictator, which welcomed him and asked the Government to guarantee him human rights and judgment without  vengeance or political intervention.

Meanwhile he wants the government to ask for  more than 15,000 thousand boxes of information that were confiscated by the US army of that country in the 1989 invasion, in which he claims is the truth of the dictatorship.

The former dictator was  underwent extensive medical and psychiatric tests submitted on Tuesday order to determine the medication  and diet needed to control his health problems including hypertension and peptic ulcers. He has previously suffered at least one stroke which hinders his walking.