News from Mexico - English

Big Hat No Horse wrote:
Extending information services even further, I wonder how the Chinese / Nicaraguan canal plan is going and how that will affect opinions in Central American and Mexico? There's a lot more going on in the world than just Mexico

The Chinese have a long and illustrious history building "Grand Canals". Heck, their first canal (the Han Gou) was started in ~486 BC. And, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (hand dug, built over a number of centuries) acquired UNESCO World Heritage Site status. The issue with Nicaragua is: this "Gran Canal" will traverse one of the world's most bio diverse lowland jungles, effectively cutting off any north-->south-->north species movement (a job already effectively handled naturally over the past tens of thousands of years by the Rio Coco, thank you very much); remember the Paseo Pantera project? This is not to understate the complete severing of local 2-legged inhabitants' historical/traditional movements the same direction(s)...

The 2 (or, 3) Dutch firms purported to be undertaking the EIA for "Grand Canal" have yet to release any prelim (hmmm?).

If anyone is interested in reading the 06/13 "Acuerdo Marco de Implementación" (official proposal agreement) for this project, here they are:

Acuerdo...

...and:

Orientaciones del Presidente de la Republica, Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra: confidencial

I hope this helps?
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