On the job: Cristina Richards

Cristina Richards didn’t want to leave her native Panama for the United States in 1989, considering she had a good accounting job at the upscale Marriott hotel in Panama City and spoke virtually no English.

But then the political situation fast began to turn ugly, with Gen. Manuel Noriega being implicated in drug trafficking and falling out of favor with the U.S. government.

Six months before 27,000 U.S. troops invaded Panama and captured the dictator in December 1989, Richards, at age 28, left for the U.S. — Columbus specifically — to join her mother and sister.”*

*From: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com
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