Darien: Opportunities in an Unexploited Area

Building a road connecting Panama with South America through Colombia would open up a wide range of opportunities for business and economic development in Central America.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

EDITORIAL

Panama has the responsibility to take on the challenge of building a road through the jungle area of ​​the Panamanian territory and open up a channel of communication with Colombia, to allow the power transmission and the connectivity of people and goods Centralamerica needs with the south.

An article by EFE on Prensalibre.cr reports that "... The matter was discussed in the 'Darien: Borders and Futures' forum sponsored by the City of Knowledge Foundation (FCDS), under the framework of future options in the Panamanian province of Darien and in light of integration processes underway in the continent, organizers stressed. The director of the FCDS, Jorge Arosemena, said it is very important to open up a debate on this issue of whether or not to open this jungle area known as the 'Darien Gap' in order to unite the Pan American Highway, which runs from Alaska to Panama and Urabá (Colombia) to Patagonia, and which up until now, he said, has been in part 'taboo'. "

"... Juan Moreno, an economist at the FCDS admitted to EFE that "it is not an easy thing" to say whether future options for the Darien include the opening up of its "jungle cap, but that what should be kept in mind is the context in which big interests are moving and the new geography of the global economy. " Moreno added that there are many pressures on these areas and other ecosystems that have been preserved for a long time, but "the ideal would be to conserve those spaces with environmental efficienct policies mainly led by the Panamanian government and the locals who have inhabited these watersheds ".

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