Panama City wants Elon Musk's Boring Company to build a tunnel beneath its famous canal

A Tesla drives through a Boring Company tunnel.

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• Panama City is vying for a free tunnel beneath the Panama Canal from Elon Musk's Boring Company.
• The city's mayor, Mayer Mizrachi, talked with POLITICO's Sophia Cai about the effort.
• Mizrachi envisions "a public space" where the city's residents and tourists can "live" the canal's history and travel beneath it.

Mayer Mizrachi, the 38-year-old mayor of Panama City, wants Elon Musk to...