Re: Grand Canal ----Yea verrily it appears that Daniel Ortega , president and former purported revolutionary and anti -capitalist and claimed struggler for the rights of the downtrodden of the Nicaraguan nation has signed a deal with " a Chinese company" to build a canal across the country.
Just google "-proposed canal across Nicaragua " - and you can get lots of info .

It reads like a pretty bad deal for Nicaragua, a sellout and give-away of epic proportions , a devastating environmental disaster in the making , destroying great swathes of the natural country and also displacing many human communities , all without any environmental impact studies yet made , nor consultations with the affected people.
All of this so that Chinese super - freighters can bypass the new expanded Panama Canal , pay tolls back to China to ship more millions of containers of Chinese junk and haul back raw material faster and cheaper.
It seems the" Chinese company" is of questionable integrity and dubious technical and financial ability to tackle such a project. If it does go you can bet that most of the construction work will be " sub- contracted " out to shipped in non- Nicaraguan labour as there would not be enough skilled workers in Nicaragua . It may spur a breeding binge in Nicaragua but that would leave what remains of the country massively overpopulated and in poverty , a situation worse than it is now .

Hopefully this project goes the same way as an earlier 1960s proposal by some hare-brains to blast that same canal using " controlled atomic bombs" . Brilliant idea.

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