中国铁路外交在拉丁美洲频繁受挫_时事

中国铁路外交在拉丁美洲频繁受挫

LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, Brazil — The ambitions aredizzying, some of the grandest in Latin America since thousands of laborers perished buildingrailways through the forbidding jungles of Brazil more than a century ago.

巴西贝尔德河畔卢卡斯——它们堪称逾一个世纪前成千上万的铁路建设劳工丧生于险恶的巴西丛林以来拉丁美洲最宏大的一些项目，其中的万丈雄心令人目眩。

China has sought to build a “dry canal in the form of a railway across Colombia, linking theCaribbean to the Pacific. Chinese investors announced another huge venture in Honduras, twoports and a 375-mile railroad from sea to sea. Then this June, China announced yet anothermegarailway — nearly 10 times as long — across Brazil and Peru, stretching from one coast ofSouth America to the other.

中国希望打造一条“陆上通道，通过穿越哥伦比亚的铁路线来把加勒比海和太平洋连接起来。中国投资者还宣布将在洪都拉斯进行大型工程，用两座港口和一条375英里长(约合600公里)的铁路线将这两片海域打通。到了今年6月，中国宣布了又一个超级铁路项目，是前述长度的近10倍。它将穿越巴西和秘鲁，贯通南美的东西海岸。

But across the region, one large Chinese rail venture after another has come crashing againstthe hard realities of Latin American politics, resistance from environmental groups, and agrowing wariness toward China. While China boasts of its rail initiatives around the world, it hasoften been stymied here in Latin America, reflecting how even China’s formidable ambitionshave limits.