23Colombia:Keystone of Latin America
While Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Panama offered disturbing studies, they also stood out as exceptions to the rule. Due to vast oil deposits in the first two and the Canal in the third, they did not fit the norm. Colombia’s situation was more typical; MAIN was the designer and lead engineering firm on a vast hydroelectric-based electrical network there.
A Colombian college professor once told me that Teddy Roosevelt described Colombia as “the keystone to the arch of South America.” On a map, Colombia—poised at the top of the continent—appears to hold the rest of the continent together. For nearly two centuries, the United States has viewed Colombia as a portal into the Southern Hemisphere for both business and ...
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