The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a region located in the south of Mexico, is the shortest distance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in all the country. Only 220 kilometers separate the two oceans.

The Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT, for Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec), expected to undergo a “supervised test run” on Sept. 17, received a recent visit ...

SAYULA DE ALEMAN, MEXICO — The caravan of migrants ... Young men, meanwhile, sat atop tanker trunks transiting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, clung to the sides of semitrucks and claimed ...

In the town of Juchitán de Zaragoza, located on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, one variation of a local legend goes something like this. San Vicente Ferrer ...

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, abril 22 (EL UNIVERSAL).- Al menos 24 personas indígenas oaxaqueñas enfrentan acusaciones infundadas por defender sus derechos frente a la imposición del Corredor Interoceánico del ...

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Mexican authorities have announced tax breaks designed to attract investors for a project to convert the Isthmus of Tehuantepec into a hub for global trade in the southeast region of the country.

Mexico’s government funded Isthmus of Tehuantepec Railroad completed its first cargo shipment, with officials heralding the transaction as the start of a new trade corridor that will promote ...

The Panama Canal “is already saturated,” AMLO said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday inaugurated the new interoceanic railroad through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec ...

Across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec swept a boom fever as intoxicating as tequila. In the tiny coastal towns of Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos. Mexicans with bulging bankrolls were spending ...

Despite this, the Mexican government is in the process of reopening its Interoceanic Train of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a rail network that links up the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans just as the ...