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Last domiciled leaders of Nicaragua’s anti-canal movement arrested
Rural canal opponents threw weight behind anti-government protests, putting Ortega 'on the ropes'
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Caption: López Baltodano released a book about Nicaragua Canal (image credit: Jorge Mejia, Cortesia Popol Na)
Nicaragua Canal becomes government’s ‘Achilles heel’
Campaign against canal has sparked a human rights awakening, giving the government a dilemma
Caption: Aumenta el número de muertes por proteger el medio ambiente (imagen: Eduardo Santos)
Environmental and land activist killings hit all-time high
At 60%, Latin America yet again has highest share of environment-related murders, new report shows
Caption: Guy Edwards from Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab speaking at the Wilson Center, Washington DC (image: Wilson Center).
Powerful ‘dirty’ ministries are hurting Latin America’s climate aims
Courting Chinese investment to develop high-carbon sectors has big long-term costs, experts say
Caption: Berta Zuñiga Cáceres, daughter of slain Honduran activist Berta Cáceres speaks at a vigil in New York in April (image: Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos).
Defenders of the environment on dangerous ground
Latin America has four of five riskiest countries in which to oppose environmental degradation
Caption: Last Friday’s protest in Nueva Guinea followed the third national protest (above) held in Juigalpa (image: Confidencial/ Youtube)
Opposition to Nicaragua canal intensifies
Nationwide campaign against canal continues as country faces severe water shortages
Caption: Nicaragua’s national assembly said it could not consider a citizen-led legal initiative aiming to repeal the canal law (image: Arammart)
Canal law trumps all others in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan assembly rejects citizen-led proposal to repeal canal law as opponents question process
Caption: Wang Jing, head of HKND and Xinwei Telecoms sits in front of a painting featuring Red Army commanders in his offices. Xinwei provides satellite technology to China’s military (image: PA Images)
Wang Jing’s canal dream and the people behind it
What do Wang Jing's fluctuating fortunes tell us about who might be backing the Nicaragua Canal?
Caption: Evidence of deforestation in Nicaragua’s Bosawas reserve. Many of the environmental impacts of the canal, however, are still unknown (image: Alam Ramírez Zelaya/ Flickr).
Deforestation not Grand Canal “Nicaragua’s biggest environmental problem”, claims government
Top official responds to criticism of EIA arguing reforestation will counteract canal damage
Caption: One flaw in the Nicaragua Canal environmental impact assessment is that it gives insufficient consideration to marine life on Nicaragua’s Pacific coast, according to experts (image: SeraShutterbug/ Flickr).
Nicaragua Canal Environmental Impact Assessment Criticised As Scientifically Weak
Expert panel finds “scientifically indefensible” conclusions in 14-volume study
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