New landslide in the Pan-American highway aggravates the lack of communication

On the afternoon of Tuesday, February 21, a new landslide in the municipality of Rosas, in the south of the department of Cauca. Specifically in the sector called La Esmeralda.

According to the Official Fire Department Two people were affected by this collapse and another 15 are at risk. The landslide fell on the Pan-American highway, which has been closed since January 9 due to a much larger landslide that collapsed the highway passage.

While the authorities are intervening in the Panamericana, the construction and adaptation of the variant road is being carried out, the which came into operation this Monday, February 20 in one direction.

For his part, Guillermo Reyes, the Minister of Transportation, told ‘W Radio’ that this 32-kilometre alternative route “was previously a trail” and with these works in recent weeks gave way to more than 400 vehicles, especially trucks and tractor-trailers.

“This step will save transporters those 17 hours they had to do when crossing Ecuador and the costs they had”, assured the senior official. He also said that on the weekend of February 25 and 26, another alternate route to the Pan-American Highway will be enabled for the passage of vehicles.

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