Connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific and Studying a New Interoceanic Canal Is Keeping Colombia’s New President Busy.

Photograph provided by the Colombian Presidency showing Abelardo de la Espriella (center) speaking during a meeting with business leaders in Quibdó, Colombia. The President of Colombia, Abelardo De la Espriella, is reviving the idea of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Chocó region by means of a canal or railway.