About Interamericana

The Highway is a symbol for our times. Our 21st century obsession with high-speed connections, global and local knowledge, free flowing information, mass movement, exchange, and in some cases, personal escape, are all well served by man’s ubiquitous highways.

But the Highway is an archetype of transformation too. It’s a place where people find and lose themselves in the shifting scenery of great unknowns.

This is a blog about one particular highway, the Carretera Interamericana, or Interamerican Highway, which forms the Central American section of the Panamerican highway – a road linking North and South America entirely.

Traversing some 6,000 kilometres of wildly divergent landscapes – deserts, mountains, canyons and rainforests among them – the Carretera Interamericana connects the disparate lives of eight different nations: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

Written by travel writer Richard Arghiris, Interamericana seeks to connect you with the kinds of people, places and experiences that mainstream media can’t. From the teeming US-Mexico border to the impassable rainforests of Panama, Interamericana is a constantly roaming, inquisitive presence.

Whether reporting on the social and environmental challenges facing local communities, the work of expert anthropologists, a random encounter with a stranger, or simply the sights and sounds of unusual locations, it signifies a fresh new voice in alternative news and travel writing…