The 60th rally protesting the expropriation of lands under Law 840 was held Thursday in El Tule, Rio San Juan. Hundreds of farmers and their families again demanded that the law, which establishes that expropriated lands are to be bought at a land value well below market price, be repealed.
According to the results of the most recent survey conducted by Cid Gallup, the Nicaraguan interoceanic canal project, a concession given to the Chinese entrepreneur Wang Jing, is no longer perceived by locals as the panacea that will alleviate the country’s problems and pull them out of poverty.
Last Saturday’s tragedy in the Nicaragua Caribbean – in which a boat capsized leaving 13 Costa Rican tourists dead, among them a minor – brought to light the shaky system of navigation controls that exists in this part of the country. Although the Army assured the media that boats had been prohibited from navigating since Friday January 22, contradictory stories have emerged regarding the veracity of this report.
At least 13 persons, all Costa Ricans, died Saturday when the boat they were traveling in capsized in the southern Caribbean waters of Nicaragua, confirmed both the Costa Rican foreign ministry and the Nicaraguan government.
The debate over the environmental viability of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal has divided the scientific community into two camps. There are those scientists convinced that the megaproject will trigger an ecological catastrophe for Nicaragua, while a smaller group of researchers consider it a blessing for the second poorest nation in the Americas.
The arrival of the first Cuban migrants in the U.S., although only a small fraction of the more than 6,000 Cubans still stranded in Costa Rica, symbolizes the collapse of that hateful wall raised by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega to block their passage through Central America.
The spokesman of the Commission for the Grand Canal of Nicaragua, Telemaco Talavera, assured the governing party website today that pre-construction work on the megaproject continues forward “with all the saftey and rigor that the case merits.”
On Saturday, January 9, hundreds of peasants rallied in La Fonseca, Nueva Guinea, demanding that the law authorizing the construction of Nicaragua’s interoceanic canal, better known as Law 840, be repealed.
Today we reproduce the analysis on Nicaragua and its leaders made by the team of Envio magazine, now in its 34th year of publication.
Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, held a “working visit” to Ecuador and Nicaragua to address the immigration crisis that has stranded more than 2,000 Cubans in Central America, reported dpa news.