The Government of Nicaragua has cancelled plans from ... Planned to span 278km across the country, the canal was at one point ...

So traffic is slow. There are no alternatives,“ Ortega underlined while recalling that the United States had already intended to build a Nicaragua canal back in 1854. ”We are going to send ...

President Manuel Ortega said on Saturday that the construction of a massive inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua that could significantly alter global trade would start at the end of 2014.

Each was competing to build a canal, one across an isthmus in Panama, the other across Nicaragua. At this point Eads entered the fray with a third possible location and a much more audacious ...