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.The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, lasted over a month between mid-December 1989 and late January 1990. It occurred during the administration of President and ten years after the were ratified to transfer control of the from the U.S. To Panama by 1 January 2000. During the invasion, Panamanian leader, general, and dictator, who for a long time worked with the, was deposed citing and drug trafficking.

Following the operation, the was dissolved and President-elect was sworn into office. Contents.Background The United States had maintained numerous military bases and a substantial garrison throughout the to protect the American-owned Panama Canal and to maintain American control of this strategically important area.

On 7 September 1977, U.S. President and the de facto leader of Panama, General, signed Torrijos–Carter Treaties, which set in motion the process of handing over the Panama Canal to Panamanian control by 2000. Although the canal was destined for Panamanian administration, the military bases remained and one condition of the transfer was that the canal would remain open for American shipping. Had long-standing relations with General Noriega, who served as a U.S. Intelligence asset and paid informant of the from 1967, including the period when Bush was head of the CIA (1976–77).Noriega had sided with the U.S. Rather than the USSR in Central America, notably in sabotaging the forces of the government in Nicaragua, and the revolutionaries of the group in.

Noriega received upwards of $100,000 per year from the 1960s until the 1980s, when his salary was increased to $200,000 per year. Although he worked with the to restrict illegal drug shipments, he was known to simultaneously accept significant financial support from drug dealers, because he facilitated the laundering of drug money, and through Noriega, they received protection from DEA investigations due to his special relationship with the CIA.In the mid-1980s, relations between Noriega and the United States began to deteriorate. In 1986, U.S. President opened negotiations with General Noriega, requesting that the Panamanian leader step down after he was publicly exposed in The New York Times by, and was later implicated in the. Reagan pressured him with several drug-related indictments in U.S.

Courts; however, since extradition laws between Panama and the U.S. Were weak, Noriega deemed this threat not credible and did not submit to Reagan's demands. In 1988, and others in the Pentagon began pushing for a U.S.

Invasion, but Reagan refused, due to Bush's ties to Noriega through his previous positions in the CIA and the Task Force on Drugs, and their potentially negative impact on Bush's presidential campaign. Later negotiations involved dropping the drug-trafficking indictments. In March 1988, Noriega's forces resisted an attempted coup against the government of Panama. As relations continued to deteriorate, Noriega appeared to shift his Cold War allegiance towards the Soviet bloc, soliciting and receiving military aid from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Libya. American military planners began preparing contingency plans to invade Panama. Marine Corps in PanamaIn May 1989, during the, an alliance of parties opposed to the Noriega dictatorship counted results from the country's election precincts, before they were sent to the district centers. Their tally showed their candidate, Guillermo Endara, defeating, candidate of a pro-Noriega coalition, by nearly 3–1.

Endara was physically assaulted by Noriega supporters the next day in his motorcade. Noriega declared the election null and maintained power by force, making him unpopular among Panamanians.

Noriega's government insisted that it had won the presidential election and that irregularities had been on the part of U.S.-backed candidates from opposition parties. Bush called on Noriega to honor the will of the Panamanian people. The United States reinforced its Canal Zone garrison, and increased the tempo of training and other activities intended to put pressure on Noriega.In October 1989, Noriega foiled a by members of the (PDF), led by Major. Pressure mounted on Bush. Bush declared that the U.S. Would not negotiate with a drug trafficker and denied knowledge of Noriega's involvement with the drug trade prior to his February 1988 indictment, although Bush had met with Noriega while Director of the CIA and had been the Chair of the Task Force on Drugs while Vice President. On 15 December, the Panamanian general assembly passed a resolution declaring that a state of war existed between Panama and the United States.The next day, four U.S.

Military personnel were stopped at a roadblock around 9:00 p.m. Outside PDF headquarters in the El Chorrillo neighborhood of. Marine Captain Richard E.

Hadded, Navy Lieutenant Michael J. Wilson, Army Captain Barry L. Rainwater, and Marine First Lieutenant Robert Paz had left the and were on their way to have dinner at the in downtown Panama City. The reported that the servicemen had been unarmed, were in a private vehicle, and attempted to flee only after their vehicle was surrounded by an angry crowd of civilians and PDF troops. The PDF asserted later that the Americans were armed and on a reconnaissance mission. The PDF opened fire and Lieutenant Paz was fatally wounded by a round that entered the rear of the vehicle and struck him in the back.

Captain Hadded, the driver of the vehicle, was also wounded in the foot. Paz was rushed to but died of his wounds. He received the posthumously.

According to U.S. Military sources, a U.S. Naval officer and his wife witnessed the incident and were detained by Panamanian Defense Force soldiers. While in police custody, they were assaulted by the PDF.

Naval officer spent two weeks in hospital recovering from the beating. PDF soldiers sexually threatened his wife. The next day, President Bush ordered the execution of the Panama invasion plan; the military set as 0100 on 20 December. 1LT Robert Paz, 2nd Bn, 9th Marines United States's justification for the invasion The official U.S.

Justification for the invasion was articulated by President George H. Bush on the morning of 20 December 1989, a few hours after the start of the operation.

Bush listed four reasons for the invasion:. Safeguarding the lives of U.S. Citizens in Panama. In his statement, Bush stated that Noriega had declared that a state of war existed between the U.S. And Panama and that he threatened the lives of the approximately 35,000 U.S.

Citizens living there. There had been numerous clashes between U.S. And Panamanian forces; one U.S.

Marine had been killed a few days earlier. Defending democracy and human rights in Panama. Combatting. Panama had become a center for drug and a transit point for drug trafficking to the U.S. And Europe. Protecting the integrity of the.

Members of Congress and others in the U.S. Political establishment claimed that Noriega threatened the neutrality of the Panama Canal and that the U.S. Had the right under the treaties to intervene militarily to protect the canal.U.S. Military forces were instructed to begin maneuvers and activities within the restrictions of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, such as ignoring PDF roadblocks and conducting short-notice 'Category Three' military exercises on security-sensitive targets, with the express goal of provoking PDF soldiers. SOUTHCOM kept a list of abuses against U.S.

Servicemen and civilians by the PDF while the orders to incite PDF soldiers were in place. As for the Panamanian legislature's declaration of a state of war between the U.S.

And Panama, Noriega insists that this statement referred to a state of war directed by the U.S. Against Panama, in the form of what he claimed were harsh economic sanctions and constant, provocative military maneuvers ( and ) that were prohibited by the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

Had turned a blind eye to Noriega's involvement in drug trafficking since the 1970s. Noriega was then singled out for direct involvement in these drug trafficking operations due to the widespread public knowledge of his involvement in money laundering, drug activities, political murder, and human rights abuses.Bush's four reasons for the invasion provided sufficient justification to establish bipartisan Congressional approval and support for the invasion. However, the secrecy before initiation, the speed and success of the invasion itself, and U.S. Public support for it (80% public approval) did not allow Democrats to object to Bush's decision to use military force.

One contemporary study suggests that Bush decided to invade for domestic political reasons, citing scarce strategic reasoning for the U.S. To invade and immediately withdraw without establishing the structure to enforce the interests that Bush used to justify the invasion. Military operations. Elements of 1st Bn, 508th Infantry parachuting into a drop zone, during training, outside of Panama City.The U.S., and participated in Operation Just Cause. Rows between. Main articles: andwas an operation launched by Navy SEALs to prevent Noriega's escape. They sank Noriega's boat and destroyed his jet, at a cost of four killed and nine wounded. Military operations continued for several weeks, mainly against military units of the Panamanian army.

Noriega remained at large for several days, but realizing he had few options in the face of a massive manhunt and a $1 million reward for his capture, he obtained refuge in the diplomatic mission in Panama City. Military's psychological pressure on him and diplomatic pressure on the Vatican mission, however, was relentless, as was the playing of loud rock-and-roll music day and night in a densely populated area. The report of the Office of the Chairman of the claimed that the music was used principally to prevent from being used to eavesdrop on negotiations, and not as a psychological weapon based around Noriega's supposed loathing of rock music.

Noriega finally surrendered to the U.S. Military on 3 January 1990.

He was immediately put on an aircraft and flown to the U.S.Casualties. Army in PanamaAccording to official Pentagon figures, 516 Panamanians were killed during the invasion; however, an internal U.S. Army memo estimated the number at 1,000.The UN estimated 500 deaths whereas found that around 300 civilians died. President Guillermo Endara said that 'less than 600 Panamanians' died during the entire invasion. Former Attorney General estimated 3,000 civilian deaths.

Figures estimating thousands of civilian casualties were widely rejected in Panama. The Roman Catholic Church estimated that 673 Panamanians were killed in total., said it had received 'reliable reports of more than 100 civilian deaths' that were not included in the U.S. Military estimate but also that there was no evidence of several thousand civilian deaths.Twenty-three U.S. Service members were killed and 325 were wounded.

But in June 1990, the U.S. Military announced that of the casualties, 2 dead and 19 wounded were victims of.

The, then based on Quarry Heights in Panama, estimated the number of Panamanian military dead at 205, lower than its original estimate of 314.Civilian fatalities included two American school teachers working in Panama for the Department of Defense Schools. They were Kandi Helin and Ray Dragseth. Rick Paul, the adult son of another teacher, was also killed by friendly fire as he ran an American road block. Also killed was a Spanish freelance press photographer on assignment for, Juan Antonio Rodriguez Moreno. Rodriguez was killed outside of the Marriott Hotel in Panama City early on 21 December.

In June 1990, his family filed a claim for against the United States Government. When the Rodriguez claim was rejected by the U.S.

Government, in 1992 the Spanish government sent a extending to Rodriguez and demanding compensation on behalf of his family. However, the U.S. Government again rejected the claim, disputing both its liability for warzone deaths in general and whether Rodriguez had been killed by U.S. Rather than Panamanian gunfire.' S 1991 report on Panama in the post-invasion aftermath stated that even with some uncertainties about the scale of civilian casualties, the figures are 'still troublesome' becausePanama's civilian deaths reveal that the 'surgical operation' by American forces inflicted a toll in civilian lives that was at least four-and-a-half times higher than military casualties in the enemy, and twelve or thirteen times higher than the casualties suffered by U.S. By themselves, these ratios suggest that the and the duty to minimize harm to civilians, where doing so would not compromise a legitimate military objective, were not faithfully observed by the invading U.S. For us, the controversy over the number of civilian casualties should not obscure the important debate on the manner in which those people died.

Women's roles in the invasion of Panama Operation Just Cause involved unprecedented use of U.S. Military women during an invasion. Approximately 600 of the 26,000 U.S. Forces involved in the invasion were women. Women did not serve in direct combat roles or combat arms units, but they did serve as military police, truck drivers, helicopter pilots, and in other logistical roles.

Captain, commander of the 988th Military Police Company of Fort Benning, Georgia, led her troops in a three-hour firefight against Panamanian Defense Forces who refused to surrender a dog kennel which (it was later discovered) they were using to store weapons. Bray was said to be the first woman to lead U.S.

Troops in battle and her role in the firefight was widely reported and led to controversy in the media and in Congress over women's roles in the U.S. Bray requested and received a discharge in 1991. 1LT Lisa Kutschera and Warrant Officer Debra Mann piloted UH-60 ('Blackhawk') helicopters ferrying infantry troops. Their helicopters came under fire during the invasion, and like their male counterparts, both women were awarded Air Medals for their roles during the invasion. Origin of the name 'Operation Just Cause' Operation plans directed against Panama evolved from plans designed to defend the Panama Canal. They became more aggressive as the situation between the two nations deteriorated. The series of plans included rehearsals for a possible clash and missions to secure U.S.

Sites.Eventually, these plans became Operation Blue Spoon which was then, in order to sustain the perceived legitimacy of the invasion throughout the operation, renamed by The Pentagon to Operation Just Cause. General Colin Powell said that he liked the name because 'even our severest critics would have to utter 'Just Cause' while denouncing us.' The post-invasion civil-military operation designed to stabilize the situation, support the U.S.-installed government, and restore basic services was originally planned as 'Operation Blind Logic', but was renamed 'Operation Promote Liberty' by the Pentagon on the eve of the invasion.The original operation, in which U.S. Troops were deployed to Panama in early 1989, was called 'Operation Nimrod Dancer'. Legality The US government invoked self-defense as legal justification for its invasion of Panama. A number of scholars and observers have concluded that the invasion was illegal under international law.

The justifications for invading given by the U.S. Were, according to these authorities, factually baseless, and moreover, even if they had been true theywould have provided inadequate support for the invasion under international law. Article 2 of the, a cornerstone of international law, prohibits the use of force by member states to settle disputes except in self-defense or when authorized by the. Articles 18 and 20 of the, written in part in reaction to the history of US military interventions in Central America, also explicitly prohibit the use of force by member states: 'no state or group of states has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal affairs of any other state.' (Charter of the (OAS), Article 18.) Article 20 of the OAS Charter states that 'the territory of a states is inviolable; it may not be the object, even temporarily, of military occupation or of other measures of force taken by another state, directly or indirectly, on any grounds whatever.' The US has ratified the UN Charter and the OAS Charter and therefore they are among the highest law of the land in the US under the of the US Constitution. Other international law experts who have examined the legal justification of the US invasion have concluded that it was a 'gross violation' of international law.The passed a resolution strongly deploringthe 1989 U.S.

Armed invasion of. The resolution determined that the U.S. Invasion wasa 'flagrant violation of international law.' A similar resolution proposed in the was supported by the majority of the Security Council but was vetoed by the US, France and the UK.Independent experts and observers have concluded that the US invasion of Panama also exceeded the authority of the president under the US Constitution because Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants the power to declare war solely to the Congress, not to the president.

According to observers, the US invasion also violated the, a federal law designed to limit presidential action without Congressional authorization, because the president failed to consult with Congress regarding the invasion of Panama prior to the invasion. Local and international reactions The invasion of Panama provoked international outrage. Some countries charged that the U.S. Had committed an act of aggression by invading Panama and was trying to conceal a new manifestation of its interventionist policy of force in Latin America.

On 29 December, the voted 75–20, with 40 abstentions, to condemn the invasion as a flagrant violation of international law.On 22 December, the passed a resolution deploring the invasion and calling for withdrawal of U.S. Troops, as well as a resolution condemning the violation of the diplomatic status of the Nicaraguan Embassy in Panama by U.S. Special Forces who had entered the building. At the, after discussing the issue over several days, seven nations initiated a draft resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of U.S. Forces from Panamawas on 23 December by three of the permanent members of the Security Council,France, United Kingdom, and the United States, which cited its right of self-defense of 35,000 Americans present on the Panama Canal.recalled its ambassador from the U.S. In protest of the invasion.Some claim that the Panamanian people overwhelmingly supported the invasion.

According to a CBS poll, 92% of Panamanian adults supported the U.S. Incursion, and 76% wished that U.S. Forces had invaded in October during the coup. The poll was conducted in 158 randomly selected areas of the country covering about 75 percent of Panama's adult population. CBS News said the margin of sampling error was plus or minus four percentage points.

Described the reaction of the civilian population to the invasion as 'generally sympathetic'. According to, a former U.S. National security advisor, 74% of Americans polled approved of the action.Eighteen years after the invasion, Panama's unanimously declared 20 December 2007 to be a day of national mourning. The resolution was vetoed by President. On 19 December 2019 the Panamanian government declared 20 December to be a National Day of Mourning (Dia de duelo nacional) to be marked by lowering the national flag to half staff.The Washington Post disclosed several rulings of the Office of Legal Counsel, issued shortly before the invasion, regarding the U.S.

Armed forces being charged with making an arrest abroad. One ruling interpreted which prohibits the assassination of foreign leaders as suggesting that accidental killings would be acceptable foreign policy. Another ruling concluded that the of 1878, which prohibits the armed forces from making arrests without Congressional authorization, is effective only within the boundaries of the U.S., such that the military could be used as a police force abroad—for example, in Panama, to enforce a federal court warrant against Noriega. Aftermath.

20,000 were displaced from their homes. Disorder continued for nearly two weeks., in hiding, was sworn in as president by a judge on the night preceding the invasion. In later years, he staged a hunger strike, calling attention to the poverty and homelessness left in the wake of both the Noriega years and the destruction caused by the U.S. Invasion.On 19 July 1990, a group of 60 companies based in Panama filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government in Federal District Court in New York City alleging that the U.S.

Action against Panama was 'done in a tortuous, careless and negligent manner with disregard for the property of innocent Panamanian residents'. Most of the businesses had insurance, but the insurers either went bankrupt or refused to pay, claiming that acts of war were not covered.About 20,000 people lost their homes and became refugees as a result of. About 2,700 families that were displaced by the Chorrillo fire were each given $6,500 by the U.S. To build a new house or apartment in selected areas in or near the city. However, numerous problems were reported with the new constructions just two years after the invasion.The government of Guillermo Endara designated the first anniversary of the U.S.

Invasion a 'national day of reflection'. Hundreds of Panamanians marked the day with a 'black march' through the streets of Panama City to denounce the U.S. Invasion and Endara's economic policies. Protesters echoed claims that 3,000 people were killed as a result of U.S. Military action.

Since Noriega's ousting, Panama has had four presidential elections, with candidates from opposing parties succeeding each other in the. Panama's press, however, is still subject to numerous restrictions. On 10 February 1990, the Endara government abolished Panama's military and reformed the security apparatus by creating the. In 1994, a constitutional amendment permanently abolished the military of Panama.

Concurrent with a severe recession in Latin America throughout the 1990s, Panama's GDP recovered by 1993, but very high unemployment remained a serious problem.Noriega was brought to the U.S. To stand trial. He was subsequently convicted on eight counts of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering and sentenced to 40 years in prison. His sentence was later reduced to 30 years.On 20 December 2015, Vice President announced Panama's intention to form a special independent commission with the aim to publish a truth report to mark the 26th anniversary of the U.S.

Invasion of Panama. The commission's goal would be to identify victims so that reparations could be paid to their families, as well as to establish public monuments and school curriculums to honor history and reclaim Panama's collective memory. Victims' families have claimed that past investigations into the invasion had been funded by Washington and therefore were biased. Timeline Information in this sectionSeptember 1987. U.S.

Senate passes resolution urging Panama to re-establish a civilian government. Panama protests alleged U.S. Violations of the Torrijos–Carter Treaties.November 1987. U.S. Senate resolution cuts military and economic aid to Panama.

Panamanians adopt resolution restricting U.S. Military presence.February 1988. Noriega indicted on drug-related charges. Forces begin planning contingency operations in Panama (OPLAN Blue Spoon).March 1988. 15 March: First of four deployments of U.S. Forces begins providing additional security to U.S.

Installations. 16 March: PDF officers attempt a coup against Noriega.April 1988.

5 April: Additional U.S. Forces deployed to provide security. 9 April: Joint Task Force Panama activated.May 1989.

7 May: Civilian elections are held in Panama; opposition alliance tally shows their candidate, Guillermo Endara, beating Noriega's candidate, Carlos Duque, by a 3 to 1 margin. The election is declared invalid two days later by Noriega. 11 May: President Bush orders 1,900 additional combat troops to Panama (Operation Nimrod Dancer). 22 May: Convoys conducted to assert U.S. Freedom of movement. Additional transport units travel from bases in the territorial U.S.

To bases in Panama, and back, for this express purpose.June–September 1989 (Operation Nimrod Dancer). U.S. Begins conducting joint training and freedom of movement exercises ( and Operation Purple Storm ). Additional transport units continue repeatedly traveling from bases in the territorial U.S. To bases in Panama, and back, for this express purpose.October 1989 (Operation Nimrod Dancer).

3 October: PDF, loyal to Noriega, defeat second coup attempt.December 1989. 15 December: Noriega refers to himself as leader of Panama and declares that the U.S. Is in a state of war with Panama. 16 December: U.S. Marine lieutenant shot and killed by PDF. Navy lieutenant and wife detained and assaulted by PDF.

17 December: NCA directs execution of Operation Just Cause. 18 December: Army lieutenant shoots PDF sergeant.

Joint Task Force South (JTFSO) advance party deploys. JCS designates D-Day/H-Hour as 20 December/1:00 a.m. 19 December: U.S. Forces alerted, marshalled, and launched.D-Day, 20 December 1989. U.S.

Invasion of Panama begins. The operation was conducted as a campaign with limited military objectives. JTFSO objectives in PLAN 90-2 were to: protect U.S. Lives and key sites and facilities, capture and deliver Noriega to competent authority, neutralize PDF forces, neutralize PDF command and control, support establishment of a U.S.-recognized government in Panama, and restructure the PDF. Major operations detailed elsewhere continued through 24 December. JCS directs execution of Operation Promote Liberty.3 January 1990 (D-Day + 14). Noriega surrenders to U.S.

Forces.31 January 1990 (D-Day + 42). Operation Just Cause ends. Operation Promote Liberty begins.September 1994 (D-Day + approximately 4.5 years). Operation Promote Liberty ends.Major operations and U.S. Units involved. Soldiers holding a at La Comandancia.

(USARSO). – Joint Task Force South.

(Combat Electronic Warfare and Intelligence) (Airborne)(FT Bragg). (Operations) (Airborne) (FT Bragg). A Co. 319th MI BN (Corps Tactical Operations Support Element). B Co. 319th MI BN (Signal). (Tactical Exploitation) (Airborne) (FT Bragg).

A Co 519th MI BN (Interrogation). B Co. 519th MI BN (Counterintelligence). C Co. 519th MI BN (SIGINT and Voice Intercept). 92nd MP Battalion Fort Clayton. 549th MP Company.

1138th MP Company, Det. 1, Doniphan, Missouri. 1109th Signal Brigade. 35th Signal Brigade (25th Signal Battalion/426th Signal Battalion) Fort Bragg North Carolina. 142nd Medical Battalion.

324th Support Group. 470th Military Intelligence Brigade. 747th MI BN, Galeta Island. 29th MI BN, Fort Davis. ', Task Forces Bayonet. 1st Battalion (Airborne), 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment (United States). Crandall, Russell.

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A screenshot of an ongoing liberation of a townJust Cause 3 is an, played from a. It is set in an environment of a fictional Mediterranean island known as Medici with Rico Rodriguez set as the protagonist. The world size is 400 square miles (1,000 km 2), similar to that of the setting of. However, its volumetric terrain has increased to allow more verticality – as a result of this, it is possible for the player to explore caverns and to scale buildings more effectively and realistically. The game's world is composed of five major biomes, with each having unique landmarks and landscapes.A variety of tools are provided to players for traversal in the game. Just Cause 2 's signature features – the grappling hook and parachute – re-appear with improved mechanics. The focus on chaos and exaggerated physics also remain.

A new, which is permanently equipped by Rico, is featured in the game and allows the player to glide across the world in a much faster way. When the player almost reaches the ground while using the wingsuit, they can draw themselves back up in the air by using grapples. Players can switch between using the parachute and wingsuit freely. In addition to the equipment provided, a wide range of weapons, like assault rifles, missile launchers, shotguns, RPGs, and vehicles, such as fighter aircraft, planes, ships, and exotic cars, are included in the game.

These vehicles can be customized by the player and can be used as weapons.Other game mechanics have been overhauled and updated. For example, Rico has the ability to attach and tether multiple objects together with his grappling hook, with the amount of tethers available increase by activating in-game 'mods', earned by completing challenges. Parachuting is also more stable and allows players to shoot enemies from the air. The player can grapple to every object and in the game, with the use of the. In-game currency has been left out of Just Cause 3, making the series' supply drops more easily accessible and imaginative for the player. However, this affects difficulty; for example, if the player chooses to ride a tank, the enemy AI matches the power of it and adopts weapons that are able to take down a tank.

Another new feature is giving the character infinite C4. The C4 can be placed free over the world by the player but only three at a time, though by using the in-game featured 'mods', up to five can be deployed. Unlike previous installments that required players to purchase C4, Just Cause 3 instates this weapon to allow for more chaos. In players were able to stand on top of moving vehicles but only in the center; players are allowed to move around on vehicles freely in Just Cause 3. Players are expected to liberate hostile military bases and towns featured in the game, and they will act as fast travel locations thereafter.Creativity and destruction are heavily emphasized in Just Cause 3, with many things in the game, including structures like bridges and statues, providing a variety of ways to be destroyed. A new mechanic called Rebel Drop was introduced. It allows the player to pause the game to select equipment, weapons, and vehicles through a pause menu.

The selected objects are dropped into the game's world and can be used by players. The game also features Challenge Modes. It includes mini-games like wingsuit races and the destruction frenzy mode, in which new objectives and challenges are unlocked when the player destroys an enemy base.Despite the multiplayer mod of Just Cause 2 being well received by players, the game only featured asynchronous multiplayer, in which challenges and leaderboards were included instead of any or competitive multiplayer mode, as the studio wanted to focus their manpower, time and resources in creating the game's world. Plot Six years after the events of, mercenary Rico Rodriguez returns to his homeland of Medici, a fictional that has fallen under the control of a led by General Sebastiano Di Ravello.

Seeking to restore freedom to his people, Rico sets out to overthrow Di Ravello alongside an underground resistance movement led by his oldest friend, Mario Frigo.After helping Mario save his forces from complete extermination at the hands of the regime, Rico reunites with another old ally from his past, Dimah al-Masri. With his help, the rebels retake the former Medician capital of Manaea and destroy the Vis Electra power plant, a symbol of Ravello's power. In response, troops are sent to destroy the coastal town of Costa del Porto as retribution, only to be defeated by the rebels. Dimah and her team inform Rico and Mario that Di Ravello has been mining Bavarium, a valuable mineral found only on Medici, so that he can use it to build the most powerful arsenal the world has ever seen.While retrieving an experimental scanner for Dimah, Rico discovers his former Agency contact, Tom Sheldon, is also working with the rebellion. As he does not trust Sheldon to have the rebels's interests in mind, he sabotages the scanner before delivering it to him. Mario assigns Rico to rescue Zeno Antithikara, a Bavarium researcher seeking to defect from the regime.

In response, Di Ravello has one of his new Bavarium missiles fired directly into the heart of rebel territory, the province of Baia. At the last second, Rico is able to manually maneuver the missile off its course and crash it into Di Ravello’s command base on the southern islands at the top of the mountain Cima Leon. The rebels hold a celebration, during which Rico arrives with wine stolen from Di Ravello's estate.A few months later, the regime sends a small fleet to kill Mario and Dimah while they are out at sea. In the process of saving them, Rico meets Annika and Teo, a pair of South African smugglers waging their own war on Di Ravello. After Mario sustains a serious wound during the fight, Annika offers to aid the rebellion in exchange for Rico's help in stealing Di Ravello's Imperators, tanks equipped with protective shields powered by Bavarium. In addition to destroying a number of the tanks, Rico also helps the smugglers destroy the regime's Bavarium refineries and mines, as well as test out an experimental EMP device created using technology from the Imperators.

However, the rebels begin to suffer a series of defeats on the battlefield, which Rico attributes to a mole in their ranks. In a push to wipe out the rebellion, Di Ravello orders a full-scale attack on Mario's coastal hideout. Rico rallies the rebels to defeat the invasion forces, reducing Di Ravello's control to only one region of Medici after igniting an unstable reactor at another command base at Corda Dracon.Rosa Manuela, a Medician politician and old rival of Di Ravello's, returns to Medici to form a government opposed to his regime.

At the same time, Zeno is identified as the mole. With help from the smugglers, Rico destroys a train carrying Bavarium for export and frees the prisoners working in Di Ravello's last remaining mines. With Sheldon and Dimah, he also prevents Di Ravello from selling a Bavarium bomb by detonating the bomb inside the plane transporting it. Afterwards, Di Ravello orders the military to attack the rebel-held part of the wall, as a diversion to break Zeno out of jail. Zeno attempts to escape by helicopter, but Rico manages to kill him.The rebels make a final push to end Di Ravello's rule by attacking his central command at Falco Maxime, during which Dimah sacrifices herself to wipe out all known information about Bavarium, including herself. With his forces in disarray, Di Ravello confronts Rico in an active volcano, piloting his personal Urga Mstitel helicopter. After destroying the chopper, the player is given the choice to shoot Di Ravello dead.

If they wait too long, he will commit suicide by throwing himself into a lava pit. Rosa forms a new Republic of Medici, assuming the office of President.Development The development of Just Cause 3 began in 2012, and was handled by Avalanche Studios' satellite studio in New York, which has around 75 staff members, while the main studio in Sweden focused on the development of, which was announced in 2013. The game's controls received an overhaul, and several members from, the developer of the racing video game series, joined the studios and worked on the vehicle handling of the game. Inspiration for the game's asynchronous multiplayer was taken from racing games like and, while the 'Destruction Frenzy' mechanic was inspired by the series. Inspirations for the game were drawn from the modding community of Just Cause 2.

As a result, the upgrades featured in the game are called 'mods'.When designing the game's world, the studio collected photo books of the Mediterranean area and sent a team to several Mediterranean islands to get a better glimpse of the area. The environment of the game is inspired by the landscape of and the southern Mediterranean area. Avalanche Studios considered such areas 'an untapped resource' which no other developer had worked on before. In order to portray a world under dictatorship, the developers of the game established a color scheme composed of mainly grey, yellow, and red, to convey a sense of oppression. The size of the game's world is similar to that of, but Avalanche promised that the content featured in the world would be 'denser' than its predecessor. Environmental destruction is expanded in Just Cause 3, as Avalanche considered it a key element in creating a cinematic experience and a mechanic to give players more freedom. The team also considered that with the advancements in technologies, they were able to add more destruction mechanics, which are of larger scale, to the game.In an interview, the CEO of Avalanche Studios Christofer Sundberg stated that the game would continue to retain and expand Just Cause 2 's joy and humor, and that the tone of the game would not be very serious, but slightly more so than that of Just Cause 2.

He described the tone of the game '70 percent wacky and 30 percent serious'. The game's campaign explores the series' protagonist Rico Rodriguez's backstory, as the game is set in his motherland. His image was made more 'approachable', in which he wears casual clothing like jeans throughout the game, as opposed to his uniform in the original and Just Cause 2. His gadgets and equipment were also made more realistic. The art director of the game explained that the studios 'wanted just a touch of that agency feel on Rico Rodriguez without going too far into the goofy and outlandish like starring.' The game was first hinted at by the CEO of Avalanche Studios on February 27, 2013. In August 2014, Avalanche Studios announced that 2015 would be their 'biggest year since the inception of the studio', teasing 'several surprises'.

The game was rumored to feature a structure. However, the developer denied such rumors and confirmed that it would be a full-price game without. The game was officially announced on November 11, 2014. The first gameplay demo for the game was shown at Square Enix's conference. Release Just Cause 3 was released worldwide on December 1, 2015, for,.

The game was published. A Collector's Edition of the game was announced on March 12, 2015. People were allowed to vote for the items included in the Edition. The result of the poll was revealed on July 9, 2015, and the Collector's Edition includes a grappling hook, the Weaponized Vehicle Pack content, a poster of Medici and an artbook. At, Square Enix announced that players who purchased the game on Xbox One would receive the backward-compatible version of for the Xbox 360. Console players who purchased the game's Day One Edition are eligible to enter a contest held by Avalanche and Square Enix, which tasks players to score Chaos Points to top the leaderboard.

The winner of the contest would get a real-life island, or 50,000 cash.The game's expansion pass, Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass, introduces three different mission sets which add new weapons, enemies, missions, and vehicles to the game. The first expansion set, titled Sky Fortress, which includes a jet-powered wingsuit and a new aerial area, was released on March 15, 2016 (March 7 for players who own the Air, Land and Sea Expansion Pass for the game). The second pack, Mech Land Assault, which introduces a equipped with a gravity gun, a new area called Lacrima, and new enemies, has been released on June 11, 2016 (June 3 for Expansion pass owners). The final DLC, titled Bavarium Sea Heist, which adds a new lightning gun, the 'Loochador', a boat equipped with missile launchers and miniguns, and a new area called 'Stingray', a laboratory owned by Eden Corporation, was released on August 18, 2016 (August 11 for Expansion Pass owners).A multiplayer developed by the team that created has been developed.

In July 2016, Avalanche hired the lead developer of the mod, Cameron Foote, to work on projects within the studio. As a result, while the mod team will continue to support the Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod, the one for the Just Cause 3 will be cancelled.

In July 2016, a team called Nanos GbR, who had previously brought multiplayer mods to and, announced plans to build a similar mod for Just Cause 3, which was ultimately released on on July 20, 2017.Reception. This section needs expansion. You can help. ( June 2017)ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScorePC: 74/100PS4: 73/100XONE: 71/100Review scoresPublicationScore8/109/108/108/108/10PC: 8/10PS4/XONE: 5.9/1067/1008.5/10VideoGamer.com6/10Just Cause 3 received 'mixed or average' reviews from critics, according to.Reviewers praised the open world environment, destruction mechanics and its promotion of player agency, but criticized the narrative and technical issues. Awards YearAwardCategoryResultRef20152015Game, Franchise ActionNominated2016The 'Boom Boom' AwardNominated2017The 'Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War' AwardWon.