Noriega was brought to the United States for trial as a drug trafficker.

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In 1989, when Luis Carlos Galan, a reformist politician and friend of her mother's, was murdered by Pablo Escobar, the drug trafficker, Ms Betancourt tore up the script for her life as a diplomatic wife, returned to Colombia and plunged into politics.

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In an interview last week on Secure Freedom Radio, Michael Braun, a former top Drug Enforcement Agency official, declared that such testimony could be absolutely indispensible to American efforts to protect our nation against the various threats of which this top drug-trafficker has first-hand knowledge.

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