Garras de oro

Garras de oro (Golden Claws), also known as Alborada de justicia (Dawn of Justice), is a 1927 Colombian silent film.

The film is a fierce critique of United States policy towards Latin America, focusing in particular on the United States' backing of Panamanian separatists that led to the partition of the former Isthmus Department from Colombia.

The film's opening intertitle reads: "This film-novel is to protect from the oblivion of memory an important episode in modern history, which by fortune became the first stone in a landslide that tore apart our coat of arms and battered our eagles."

It is believed that all actors and staff involved in the film employed pseudonyms in order to avoid the fallout from what in 1926 was still a very polemical subject in Colombia.

It subsequently faded from the public view and was thought lost for decades.

Uncle Sam reaching out for the isthmus of Panama.