After decades of delays, a new, COP$1.1 trillion (US$317 million), 24-kilometers-long highway — including Colombia’s longest tunnel – on August 15 opened to link Medellin directly to the Jose Maria Cordoba (JMC) international airport at Rionegro. According to Concesion Tunel Aburra-Oriente (CTAO, the project consortium involving 74 companies), the new highway —