Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital after suffering a possible stroke.
Police said Noriega, 77, was moved from the El Renacer prison to the Hospital Santo Tomas because of high blood pressure and a possible stroke.
Noriega was extradited back to Panama in December and he is serving a 20-year sentence for the murders of opponents during his rule.
He has spent the past two decades in prison - first in the United States and then France - for drug trafficking and money laundering.
Noriega was tried and convicted in a Miami court in 1992 on eight counts of drug trafficking, money laundering and racketeering stemming from his time in power.
