Caption: image: Katie Simmons-Barth
Last domiciled leaders of Nicaragua’s anti-canal movement arrested
Rural canal opponents threw weight behind anti-government protests, putting Ortega 'on the ropes'
Nicaragua Canal Tag
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: Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa at a lavish signing ceremony to mark a deal with Chinese-owned mining company Ecuacorriente, which owns the controversial El Mirador mine (imagen: Presidencia de la República del Ecuador).
Responsible investments need civil society participation
Chinese lenders must engage with Latin American civil society on the impacts of their projects
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: High-speed rail in Lianjing county, China. A proposed high-speed rail link in Mexico, the first such project in Latin America, fell through amid objections over non-competitive tendering (image: CreativeCommons/ lianspam).
Unfulfilled Chinese promises
Unrealised China-funded infrastructure projects in Latin America mostly due to host governments
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
Caption: Lake Nicaragua, looking toward the Concepción volcano on Ometepe Island. The proposed canal would traverse the lake and require massive dredging, with potentially severe environmental consequences (photo credit: canterbury/Flickr).
Nicaragua Canal: A Giant Project With Huge Environmental Costs
$50bn inter-oceanic canal is an environmental disaster in the making, conservationists warn