Construction Progress and Problems of the Darien Gap Highway

Gao ID: PSAD-77-154 August 15, 1977

Completion of the Darien Gap Highway, the final link of the Pan American Highway system located in Panama and Colombia, is currently dependent upon establishing successful control of foot-and-mouth disease in Colombia. After 3 years of cooperation between the United States and Colombia, mostly at U.S. expense, little has been achieved.

Safeguards outlined in a 1973 cooperative agreement have not been implemented, and there were more outbreaks of the disease reported in 1976 than in either 1974 or 1975. There is no assurance that the Colombians are fully committed to the foot-and-mouth disease eradication program.

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