The Raid at Renacer Prison was an attack on the El Renacer prison in Gamboa, Panama, by units of the

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of the U.S. Army on 20 December 1989, during the

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. During the raid the

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freed the sixty-four prisoners held in the detention facility and killed five soldiers of the

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