Manuel Noriega

Orphaned by the age of 5, the Panamanian boy who would grow up to become Manuel Noriega was of mixed races including Native American/ Indigenous, Spanish and African heritage grew up to join the National Guard, eventually rising to the rank of military officer.
When Panama was struck with a military coup in 1968, Noriega further rose to prominence when he climbed the ranks to become the head of Panama's military intelligence which was oversighted by General Omar Torrijos until the latter's death in 1981 when Noriega took over as the country's de-facto leader and the general of Panama's military forces. He sabotaged presidential elections so he could install his own puppet officials.
Like a lot of dictatorships, political corruption as well as human rights violations and violence alongside a censored press as the norm in Noriega's Panama as well as types of dangerous substances that are usually outlawed in many countries due to their addictive and deadly nature being made in Panama and being distributed in and out of Panama's borders.
These shenanigans disrupted the balance between Panama-US relations and as a result, Panamanian government assets were frozen (the government was prevented from using or moving their money or other assets as long as there was unsolved corruption).
This all came to ahead in late 1989 when the US launched Operation Just Cause, 11 months after George H. W. Bush became the 41st President of the United States. Operation Just Cause's primary mission was to remove Noriega from power who was wanted by the US not just for drug trafficking but for racketeering too! Almost immediately after being overthrown, Noriega barricaded himself in the Vatican Embassy of Panama only to find himself surrounded by the US Army who wanted him to surrender but he wasn't willing to surrender.