On the corner of San Blas Tejeira street in Altos del Golf, an upper-middle-class neighbourhood of Panama City, there is a relatively large house surrounded by low walls and a rusting gate with a discreet yellow and blue ceramic sign to one side. It reads: “Noriega”.

The garden is overgrown, there are crumpled beer cans scattered on the ground, and, beyond them, the once whitewashed walls are now patchy and peeling. Opposite the main door, which is open and missing several panes of glass, there is a stone statue. It fell off its plinth many years ago.