High road could pierce the heart of darkness. (completing the Pan-American Highway through Panama)

Insight on the News | December 12, 1994| | Copyright

Completing the Pan-American Highway would link North and South America via Panama's Darien jungle. Congress is holding out on the project, however, sensitive to the cries of environmentalists.

Panama has always presented challenges. Here, scientists conquered yellow fever, and workers overcame volcanic landslides to carve a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The Panama Canal, which opened in 1914, turned the country into an international terminal.

Yet the more pedestrian task of completing the Pan-American Highway remains bogged down in a ...

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