The movie, released in 1926 was banned by American authorities and couldn't be re-released until the 1950's, "Patrimonio Filmico Colombia" during a long process restored the movie (although incomplete due to time deterioration) and is finally open for the public until the 2000's. When you see the movie there's no doubt on why it was banned: The symbolisms of "Uncle Sam" trying to balance the balance of justice by putting Panama on one side and bags of money (representing US$25'000.000); the constant referring to the USA as "yanquilandia" ("yanquiland") and the obvious hate for the USA national anthem in the music (that is in one version of the sound, since it's a silent movie), among other things, are all a lethal and obvious combination to make the USA angry.
But the story is not involving only this: there is a love story between an American man and a Colombian woman, there's the story of American spies on Colombia, and some other little stories in between; unfortunately since the movie wasn't found entirely do to time deterioration and carelessness through the years, the movie makes constant jumps that are a little confusing such as the answer to a conflict that was never shown, persons appearing on other country just like that, and the sudden end of the movie; of course the movie wasn't made like that, like I said it is because of time deterioration.
However it is an excellent movie to see the social impacts that were occurring in this moment of the world history: the prejudgments that American people had to Colombian people and vice-versa; it is really a direct look of how much hate was in that time, only mentioning that whoever made this was really mad at the USA at that time, so you can't miss to see this movie, if you have the chance to see it: Do it.