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Caribbean & Central America - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
NICARAGUA: Off to a shaky start
Works on Nicaragua’s US$50bn 'Gran Canal' inter-oceanic canal project linking the country’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts, officially began on 22 December 2014. With the Hong-Kong-based company HKND – which was awarded the build-operate concession in June 2013 – and the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FMLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega yet to assuage transparency concerns, the start of the project was marred by violent protests.
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