Posted on 12/25/2017 8:12:40 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
Bolivian President Evo Morales met with German and Swiss officials in Bern, Switzerland, on December 14 to sign an agreement on building one of the largest infrastructure projects of the century—a coast-to-coast railroad across South America.
The Central Bi-Oceanic Railway Corridor, or “Panama Canal on Railway Tracks,” will stretch from the Pacific coast of Peru, through Bolivia, and across Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. The total length of the projected route is 2,333 miles.
Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay also plan to add connection routes to the corridor.
Germany and Switzerland will assist in the ambitious project’s construction and will also provide building materials and maintenance.
Since Bolivia is landlocked, it has been particularly eager to see the project completed. The Bolivians hope the completed railway will position their nation as “the heart of South America.”
In Bern, President Morales met with Germany’s state secretary of Transport, Building and Urban Development, as well as representatives of German and Swiss railway companies. Following the meeting, he tweeted, “Our meeting with the Swiss-German consortium was very productive.” He also said that the final draft of the project will be ready to sign next month.
“It is a project with consequences that reach far beyond the economy,” said José Alberti, an economist with Bolivia’s cadex export firm. “It will have a major impact on society, as it will also create many new jobs.”
“The transcontinental railway is an important geostrategic project for South American countries,” Alberti told Deutsche Welle. “It will improve integration and infrastructures on the continent,” he said, adding that it will also “foster transatlantic networking.”
This final statement indicates what the Europeans stand to gain from throwing their support behind the Central Bi-Oceanic Railway Corridor: greater access to South America’s markets and resources.
The Trumpet and our forerunner magazine the Plain Truth have warned for more than 50 years that a German-led European bloc would come to dominate Latin America, to the detriment of the United States.
Back in October 1957, the Plain Truth said that Europe and South America are “religious, commercial and political partners.” In May 1962, it declared that “the United States is going to be left out in the cold as two gigantic trade blocs, Europe and Latin America, mesh together and begin calling the shots in world commerce.”
More recently, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has said that the “connection” between Europe and Latin America “will cement” due mainly to their common religion and languages. “But it will not be a union of equals,” he writes in Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. “The Latin American countries will become vassal states to Europe!” (For more information, request our free booklet Isaiah’s End-Time Vision.)
Mr. Flurry also explains how this European-Latin American connection will lead to the biblically prophesied besiegement of the United States: “With a German-led Europe … possessing great maritime power, North America will be surrounded on the east by Europe and the south by Latin America. The Bible contains many prophecies of that European power attacking America—and many other prophecies of America being besieged.”
The biblical prophecies that he mentions can be found in Deuteronomy 28:52, Isaiah 23, Ezekiel 27 and elsewhere. To understand how this massive railway project and other aspects of Europe’s deepening inroads into South America are leading to the fulfillment of these sobering Bible prophecies, order a free copy of Mr. Flurry’s booklet Isaiah’s End-Time Vision.
They don’t know what they’re talking about.
Are they going deport their ‘extra’ immigrants to S. America and send them express rail to the U.S. open border?
Longer than that. Armstrong prophesied that Nazi Germany would win WW-II.
After everyone had forgotten about that false prophecy, the old man Armstrong along with his playboy son Garner Ted who were supposed to be the two witnesses prophesied that The Great Tribulation would begin in 1972, then in 1975, then the old man and his son parted company, then it would happen very soon if people would stop sinning and send more money, then the old man died.
Then a new cult leader named Gerald Flurry arose claiming to be the divinely ordained successor to Armstrong and who regards Armstrong as worthy of worship said The Great Tribulation would happen about 10 years ago... except it didn't which makes Gerald R. Flurry also a false prophet.
This might happen in 2117.
Not today.
Crossing the Andes would be interesting. La Paz is about 12,000’ in elevation.
The rails through the Alps are pretty neat. Some really long tunnels make it work efficiently.
I don't see this as a connector, but rather a distributor. If all they wanted was a connector you could build a much shorter line near the canal. But then again, we already have the canal.
I've been on that road in Costa Rica. It's a slalom course around massive pits. No matter how you try, your suspension will be wrecked.
Good luck with getting across the Andes
Choo choo heads are on the prowl again
Stupid idea
Remote country. Rain forest. Giant mountains. Swamps
What could go wrong ?
Massive mud slides too. I dont think this will happen.
Better they build it east to west than south to north.
The Germans are looking for a trophy project.
Reassertion of Germanic pride and ingenuity.
I say, go for it !!!
Just leave the Jews alone this time.
I read last week that over 50% of Germans want to ditch the Euro and go back to the Deutsche Mark. A little Nationalism could go a long way to to unwind the Euro-Socialist, Multiculturalist P.C. nightmare they have created.
Yep, I bet the environmentalist whackos are already throwing a fit.
Great for Caterpillar and the US. Cat built many of the great highways that changed economies and societies.
"This is a consultants hallucination and will never happen. ....... This deal will cost trillions."
No reasonable person involved in logistics would consider docking a ship on the Atlantic side, unloading for a very long and torturous rail journey and then re-loading on the Pacific side vs the trip around the cape. It's a no brainer time wise or expense wise.
A laughable notion that won't ever see fruition.
PANAMA CITY — A mammoth ship bearing 9,472 containers and the unwieldy name Cosco Shipping Panama completed on Sunday the first official voyage through the new expanded Panama Canal, a $5.25 billion project designed to modernize a 102-year-old landmark of human ambition, determination and engineering prowess.
An expanded Panama Canal opens for giant ships
"A tanker of liquefied natural gas loaded on the U.S. Gulf Coast and bound for Asian markets could shorten its travel distance by about 5,000 nautical miles and seven to nine days, according to Martin Houston, co-founder of Tellurian, a developer of liquefied natural gas projects. He estimated that the expanded canal could accommodate about 80 percent of the current world liquefied natural gas tanker fleet, compared with the 7 percent that could pass through the old facilities. “All this adds up to additional commercial flexibility and lower cost, which is what our customers want,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/an-expanded-panama-canal-opens-for-giant-ships/2016/06/26/11a93574-37d1-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html?utm_term=.4c6b81d80811
This is the grinch who stole the whole reason for such an adventure. Leaving the cargo on board and getting it there in an expedient manner is the best option.
Good point. I was taking the “Panama Canal” analogy too literally, I suppose. It doesn’t offer any advantages for cargo, but as a people mover, it would be preferable to a trip around Panama. But in the age of low cost jet travel, what’s the point?
Umm ... the USA finished the same railroad 148 years ago.
Just goes to show that most Marxists (e.g., Evo Morales) basically have their heads in the sand.
I bet that South American railroad will be as profitable as Jerry Brown’s bullet train.
Morales is a Marxist and government-owned railways are inherently Marxist too.
Highways allow people to travel freely; railroads constrain you to travel when the government sets the timetable and on a government owned asset. The jobs are all government too, so there is more possibility for political patronage.
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