Mexico’s ‘interoceanic corridor’ aims to rival the Panama Canal

Mexico is hard at work on a huge development project that the country’s president says will rival the Panama Canal. It won’t be another waterway though. Instead, it will link new ports on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of southern Mexico with a network of rail lines and industrial parks. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is looking to the US for support on the project. Michael Fox has the story.

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