ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Svanafora (ph) family says they have fresh evidence implicating General Noriega.</s>NEWMAN: I was CNN's bureau chief in Panama during that very turbulent year when the United States and Panama almost broke off diplomatic relations and an economic embargo was imposed. It was the time when military strong man General Manuel Antonio Noriega was clinging on to power. He had been accused of drug trafficking, of selling secrets both to the United States and to Cuba. I was one of the few U.S.-based reporters in Panama because General Noriega had shut down all the opposition media. It was almost impossible for the Panamanian public to get any independent news coverage, except by turning on CNN. And so, very soon, I became also an object of General Noriega's wrath. I remember he once got on television and was waving a sword and he accused me, specifically, of being a disinformer. Shortly after a demonstration in which government agents went out on the street and attacked a peaceful demonstration by government opponents with weapons, with guns, we were covering that story. It went all over the world. And when General Noriega saw that, he said, that's enough. Expel the correspondent from Panama. And a few days later, we were out of Panama.
CNN 20: Lucia Newman on Assignment in Panama