There are enough stories about Tony from Panama...that you could make a 20-hour mini-series. I was stationed there in the late 1980s. Every single day was an adventure in that period.
Tony at some point, had decals to enter all US bases. His daughter returned from outside of Panama in this heated anti-Tony period and wasn’t aware of the negativity. She came up to the gate and just blasted through the Albrook entry gate. SP’s were chasing her all the way through Albrook to the other side of the installtion, and finally arrested her. Some suggest alcohol was an issue for her detention. This was around midnight, and Tony woke to hear the news....got all peeved, and at 6AM, the Panama cops began arresting GI’s left and right as they left for work. Must have been at least a hundred GI’s detained.
Sounds like a Banana Republic where only Friends of Tony actually have bananas.
I got there a couple weeks after “the war”. Totally different place. I spent almost 5 years there and it was one long tropical vacation.