"No to the channel!", "Outside the Chinese!" That's what chanted hundreds of Nicaraguans who have reached Managua, despite the authorities. Environmental organizations and farmers' associations protest against the Chinese canal project whose first sod to be given on 22 December. This channel, which connects the Pacific to the Atlantic, with a length of about 280 km, will lead to the destruction of at least 400 000 hectares of land and may pollute the lake Cocigolpa, the second largest reserve
freshwater Latin America.
"If we let the authorities move people who live on the route of the Canal announced expropriate them, then that means that nobody will ever be protected in this country. And I believe that today we must all protest! "Says opposition MP, Eliseo Nunez, the Independent Liberal Party.
"We do not want the Chinese to Nicaragua because they will interfere in the economy. We are hungry and we need to eat "proclaims an old man directly affected by expropriation.
The Government of Nicaragua, he highlights the 40,000 jobs that will create the work, and above all, his ambition to pump from 2020 part of the commercial traffic that now goes through the only existing channel, that of Panama.
It is the company HKND in hand Chinese billionaire Wang Jing, investing in this mammoth project.
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