This month the governmental committee for Nicaragua’s US$50bn ‘Gran Canal’ project and the nine communities which make up the indigenous Gobierno Territorial Rama y Kriol (GTR-K) in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region (Raas) signed a deal to lease an extensive portion of land in the region through which the ‘Gran Canal’ would pass. GTR-K members have since come out against the agreement, claiming it was in breach of decision-making protocol. These doubts over the validity of the local consultation process on the project which is to link the country’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts – for which the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega is pushing –
follow other recent protests against it.End of preview - This article contains approximately 775 words.
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