Yeah, there was a person I had in mind and I believe his name was Torrijos. He died in a plane crash. Said to be an accident, but it was no accident. However, I was thinking more of the thousands and thousands of other people, ordinary people (not the leaders of governments) who died at the hands of death squads and paramilitary groups funded by the Reagan administration.

You can read about the unfortunate end of Mr Torrijos in an excellent book called "Confessions of a Corporate Hitman", and it will make quite clear what did happen down there and why. It's always about money.