President Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela last weekend has brought about comparisons from Republicans to the 1989-1990 operation in Panama, in which the U.S. military captured Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega.

The capture of Maduro is the easy part. What comes next will test whether America has learned anything from its history.

The Panama invasion, led by President George H. W. Bush, has a number of similarities with recent events in Venezuela.

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.

Havana (CNN) — A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega, much like Venezuela’s ...