Torrijos Herrera

[ tawr-ree-haws er-re-rah ]

noun

1. O·mar [aw-, mahr], 1929–81, Panamanian military and political leader: chief of state 1972–78.

Example Sentences

Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama’s dictatorial leader, to serve as consul general in New York City.

From Washington Post

In the late 1960s, he came under the tutelage of Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera, a dictator who would sign a 1977 treaty in which the United States would agree to cede control of the canal and the American property alongside it in December 1999.

From New York Times

The unrest was prompted by a serious allegation, that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 48, commander of the Panama Defense Forces and the country's most powerful figure, helped arrange the 1981 air-crash death of his predecessor, General Omar Torrijos Herrera.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stems from his image as the protector of la revolucion, the shift in political power led by Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized control of the military in a coup 21 years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Omar Torrijos Herrera, 52, cigar-chewing brigadier general of Panama's National Guard and the country's de facto strongman, who negotiated the return by the U.S. of the Panama Canal Zone to his country's control; in an airplane crash; in the western jungles of Panama.

From Time Magazine Archive