Video 1 Transcript
There was a time when the military took over the country in like the 70s and 80s. Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega, they were like the the leaders of that time of the regime and it was a time of under a lot of people love Torrijos because he helped the country develop and become independent from the U.S. They acquired the canal under him but then Noriega had a lot of human rights abuses and kind of was more oppressive of a leader and caused the U.S. military to get involved and come and invade and so that's kind of a sensitive topic for a lot of Panamanians just to be aware of. It's just very interesting how the country has gotten past the kind of these struggles and how now they have a very strong democracy with the president and it's really cool.
Video 2 Transcript
It was part of Colombia for a while and then became its own country kind of like 1903 in that area and it was kind of due to the United States really pushed to make it its own country for strategic purposes basically to build the canal. So they have a long history of United States influence which is good and bad. A lot of people kind of hold a little bit of resentment to the U.S. because of how long the military was there and just kind of how much they, the ways they took advantage of Panama and its resources but at the same time the U.S. helped Panama develop really well and so you'll see like a lot of United States things there. They use the U.S. dollar in their country and there's also a feeling of like mutual trust between the two countries although there is some resentment.
Video 3 Transcript
A saying I like a lot about Panama is Corazón del Mundo, Puente del Universo, which means basically heart of the world, bridge of the universe, and it's because of the region it's located. The country has a variety of people, of species, of different flowers, and just it's just amazing what you can find because of the history of how it was created physically, how the country came together and joined both oceans and both continents, but also how many people migrated in different times in history. And so there's not one type of way a Panamanian can look because we're all made of different people in different places.
