PANAMA’S former  military dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was taken from his  cell at El Renacer Prison on Friday morning, July 22,  to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Calidonia

As part of the process for his upcoming for the murder of Heliodoro Portugal, a psychiatric and medical evaluation for the murder of Heliodoro Portugal. ordered by Judge Secundino Mendieta  was carried out

Noriega was supposed to undergo surgery to remove a benign brain  tumor on July 19, but the surgery was postponed at the request of his doctors.