Colombia, Panama and the Pan-American Highway: Agreements and Desagreements

Abstract

This article is an analysis based
on the results of
a descriptive and explanatory research project
which take up again
the controversy
arisen in the last decades about the construction of
the
Pan-American Highway
in
The Darien Gap,
where this project has been stalled for more than 30
years because of the conflict of interests between the groups involved. The aim is to show,
from the theoretical perspective
of the
complex interdependence, that
the construction of
the Pan-American Highway
in the Darien
Gap
provides a
joint
road infrastructure
that makes easier the continental integration,
at the same time it benefits
the relations between Colombia
and Panama and its influence
in South America, according to the
premise that the cooperation between related territories ensures
the necessary dimensions
to
develop a high
degree of economic and
political power