There were two major protests in Puerto Principe, Nicaragua in the past two weeks against the Nicaragua canal project, and another one on Ometepe Island. Ometepe Island is in Lake Nicaragua; it is one of the unspoiled places on this planet, and the canal would spoil it. The Ometepe protest drew 5,000 people. Story by Elba Rivera at
Nicaragua Dispatch: More Nicaraguans join anti-canal marches
The story also says that the campesinos are being offered the equivalent of $38 per manzana for their land. That's $22 per acre, or $54 per hectare.