Nations Discuss Road Linking Americas

Nov 1, 9:58 PM EST

Nations Discuss Road Linking Americas

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- The presidents of Panama and Colombia Monday discussed building a road linking North and South America.

Panama's Martin Torrijos and Alvaro Uribe of Colombia also addressed electricity sharing and the possible construction of a natural gas pipeline that would send gas to Panama.

Uribe said he formally asked the Panamanian government to study the feasibility of building the road. Currently, highways span the continents from Alaska to Argentina, except for an 85-mile stretch in the jungles of the Darien Gap straddling the Colombian-Panamanian border.

Uribe said he considers this highway to be of "huge importance." While Torrijos said Panama "has taken note" of Uribe's request, he said his country is studying "better environmental alternatives."
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Absolutely no idea where to put this (the post I mean, not the road). Just posting as neat stuff, really, no sense that these are particularly serious discussions. Anyway, feel free to alert if it doesn't seem sufficiently lounge-worthy.

to roll in and take over?
:shrug:

Decades ago, when I was a kid, I saw a documentary about some explorers who traversed the Darien Gap in jeeps and on foot. It was both jungly and hilly.