Feb 3, 2025 · 246K views · 📍 Panama City, Panama · University of Panama · Port of Balboa
Nick Shirley travels to Panama to ask locals how they feel about President Trump's stated desire to reclaim the Panama Canal, citing Chinese control of ports and alleged treaty violations. The video captures street interviews, a university protest with tear gas, and demonstrations outside a Marco Rubio-president meeting, along with discussion of alleged corruption in canal administration.
Why it's not on the fraud stats: Off map: Panama street interviews about the canal.
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Inflation-adjusted equivalent of the original canal construction cost.
“which is equivalent to $15 billion nowadays”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Annual revenue generated by the canal that a local claims is misused instead of funding public infrastructure.
“the money that is coming in is about $8 billion a year”
Stated by local interviewee
Amount China committed to invest in Panama to build bridges over the canal.
“China has committed to also invest 1.3 billion dollar into Panama”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Amount the US originally spent building the Panama Canal in the early 1900s.
“the US spent over $350 million”
Stated by Nick Shirley
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.
All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: All four monetary claims are accurately quoted and correctly attributed to either the narrator or local interviewees. Entities are all supported by the transcript, with President Mulino and Panama Canal Authority being reasonable reconstructions of transcript references ('Molino' and 'canal Administration'). No hallucinations detected.