Plus robot babies, a controversial Economist op-ed, and the School of Smut – all hot of the international press
Roads to nowhere
The financial impact of the ‘lost Llanos’ was featured The Economist, reporting on the catastrophic landslides that closed the main Bogotá to Villavicencio highway for the foreseeable future. With three mountain ranges, the highest rainfall in the world – and currently with 12 major roads blocked by mudslides – Colombia was a “road-builder’s nightmare,” concluded the article. It might also have added “and road-users nightmare.”
