Campesinos march against the canal and expropriations in Nueva Guinea. Photo by Carlos Herrera.
Article by Tim Rogers and Wilfredo Miranda at
Nicaragua Dispatch: Nicaraguans rise up against Chinese canal
Excerpts: "Suspicions of Nicaragua’s left-wing Sandinista government have turned to alarm as the country’s perpetual president, Daniel Ortega, hatched a perplexing partnership with enigmatic Chinese businessman Wang Jing in 2013. Now, the two are preparing to expropriate land from 7,000 mostly poor Nicaraguan families to make way for an ill-conceived 172-mile canal megaproject that many doubt will ever get funded, much less built."
"The Sandinista government, in its fondness for secrecy, granted the canal concession to an unknown Chinese company that appeared out of nowhere and registered on Grand Cayman Island a few minutes before the law was drafted."