Coming Soon... Chinese Built Canal Through Nicaragua

[Ocklawaha]

Oh I agree, not to mention Colombia. Nicaragua has been trying to reclaim Colombia's English speaking islands (Providencia and San Andres) for years. They're 'Navy' is a tiny speedboat joke, Army is small and not professional and the Chinese could be just the ticket to fix it. Meanwhile the Colombian armed forces number about 250,000 uniformed personnel: 145,000 military and 105,000 police. These figures do not include assistance personnel such as cooks, medics, mechanics, and so on. This makes the Colombian military one of the largest and most well-equipped in Latin America. Many Colombian military personnel have received military training assistance directly in Colombia and also in the United States, UK, Israel and the French Foreign Legion. Colombia has it's own canal proposal which they've 'done the Jacksonville' and studied it to death, funny I actually have held the drawings for it dated something like 1915. Every now and then it resurfaces and when I left a few years ago it was all about China. It should be noted that the Colombian canal would be the only one of the 3 that is WATER LEVEL, no mountains. If it wouldn't have been for the USA jumping into a Civil War on the wrong side, breaking the northern most province and making it 'independent'... dependent on the USA, the Panama Canal would have been the Colombian Canal.

I don't know how I know this but I just know, most of these projects go NOWHERE!

[spuwho]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-12448580

China & Colombia announce dry canal proposal. This is from 2011.

[BridgeTroll]

http://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/controversial-nicaragua-canal-on-hold/

Construction work on a controversial canal that would link the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean via an overland route across Nicaragua and through Central America's largest lake has been postponed until late 2016, says the company behind the project.

China-based HKND Co. issued a statement Wednesday saying that "the construction of locks and the big excavations will start toward the end of 2016," adding that "the canal's design is currently being fine-tuned."

Earlier this month, the Nicaraguan government issued an environmental permit for the project, which has an estimated cost of $50 billion dollars. HKND started building access roads for the project nearly a year ago, but has yet to break ground on the waterway.

The project has drawn sharp criticism from scientists over its potential impacts on Lake Nicaragua and delicate coastal ecosystems. Local communities concerned about their farmland have also protested the project, while some policy experts have raised doubts about its financial viability. China's economic downturn and the worldwide collapse in commodity prices, have further undercut enthusiasm for the project.