Latin American Economy & Business - December 2014 (ISSN 1741-7430)

Dogged by unanswered questions about its feasibility, funding, and environmental impact, many have doubted whether the proposed ‘Grand Canal’ project in Nicaragua – the construction of a second inter-oceanic waterway across the Central American isthmus – will ever get off the ground. Yet in December the Nicaraguan government insisted that all was going to plan, and that building work would begin that same month. A national protest demonstration against the Canal was held on 10 December.