16 Dec 2013 - 09:56 by Local Press Report
MANAGUA
The Sandinista government of Nicaragua is rapidly moving forward with a plan to allow a Beijing-based Chinese businessman to build a huge canal connecting Nicaragua’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The plan gives telecommunications CEO Wang Jing a very generous set of concessions in exchange for a promise to build an inter-ocean canal three times the length of the Panama Canal, reports the Daily