VIDEO: Mexico opens world's tallest suspension bridge (may also be drug superhighway)

The world’s tallest cable-suspension bridge is 403m high – tall enough to fit the Eiffel Tower underneath it.

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Felipe Calderon has formally opened the world’s tallest suspension bridge – standing over 400m in height.

The Baluarte Bridge – which took years to build – spans a massive ravine in mountains in the north of the country, and cross a provincial border.

The bridge – which is over a kilometre in length – forms part of the celebrations to mark Mexico’s 200th year of independence, but has come in for criticism because of its precise location.

As this video from Al Jazeera notes, the Sierra Madre mountain region is notorious for its prevalence of illegal drugs – and some fear the road will serve as nothing more than a super-highway to transport them.

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