Keep on trucking: President Uribe pushes for Colombia's most ambitious highway plan ever.(INFRASTRUCTURE)

Latin Trade | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

Colombia's highways are headed for an extreme makeover. President Alvaro Uribe has prepped to perform the surgery needed to modernize Colombia's vast network of highways. More than cosmetic, however, Uribe's plan is a kind of pavement bypass operation: A cross-country highway renovation project, known as Plan 2,500, will cost more than US$770 million and is the largest infrastructure overhaul in the country's history.

The plan began during the second half of this year and will run through 2009. The government feels it's an opportunity for the private sector to drum ...

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