The Trump administration’s Jan. 3 capture of President Nicolás Maduro bore some familiar echoes to the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama that ousted military strongman Manuel Noriega — and marked the most direct U.S. intervention in Latin America since.

Operation Absolute Resolve, that resulted in the capture of Nicolás Maduro, echoes the 1990 U.S. invasion of Panama that brought down Manuel Noriega. But big differences abound.

The Venezuelan leader is now in U.S. custody. Decades earlier, the United States deposed the strongman who led Panama.

Nicolás Maduro's capture in Venezuela draws striking parallels to the dramatic 1989 U.S. operation that brought down Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.

When Nicolás Maduro appears in a New York courtroom to face U.S. drug charges, he'll be following a path taken by Panama's Manuel Noriega, another strongman who was toppled by American forces.

The US has carried out a major military operation in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and flying him out of the country, a move that has revived memories of the 1989 US invasion of Panama and the arrest of their leader Manuel Noriega who was also arrested on drug-trafficking charges and flown to the United States.

Although the two leaders controlled two different international business interests [Maduro in oil reserves and Noriega in the Panama Canal], I wanted to see what reaction, if any, the market ( SPY ) ( IVV ) ( DIA ) ( QQQ ) ( VOO ) ( VTI) had to the capture of Manuel Noriega for reference.

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has been indicted on charges of narcoterrorism, cocaine conspiracy and two weapons counts.