A demonstrator holds out a picture of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega that reads in Spanish "The biggest thief and traitor of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega illegal President" in front of a line of ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – A multi-billion dollar Chinese plan to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua was headed for approval by the leftist-controlled National Assembly ...

The planned trans-oceanic canal in Nicaragua could spell disaster for jaguars and other large mammals, according to a new study by researchers at conservation groups Panthera and Global Wildlife ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) – Nicaragua's government says the construction of the nation's inter-ocean canal will start a year later than planned because the waterway's path has yet to be defined. The ...

Nicaragua's government is just months away from breaking ground on a new waterway meant to rival the Panama Canal, despite cries of alarm from environmentalists and growing questions about the company ...

For hundreds of years, explorers and governments have dreamed of a waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific. Proposed routes have ranged from Mexico to Colombia, but many have focused on Nicaragua. A ...

There are a lot of doubts about whether a proposed canal in Nicaragua will ever be built, but the route of the waterway that would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and potentially radicalize the ...

Chinese consortium pushes new canal through Nicaragua, threatening indigenous people, environment. A stealthy jaguar moves across a camera trap in Bankukuk, Nicaragua along the path of the Gran Canal.

More than 150 years ago, U.S. businessmen and politicians plotted the creation of a canal through the isthmus nation of Nicaragua that would link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Now, according to ...

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia — Unanswered questions about the environmental and social effects of Nicaragua’s proposed $50-billion transoceanic canal have prompted the government to postpone the ...

The canal would skirt the southern edge of Ometepe, an island formed by two volcanoes in Lake Nicaragua.Guiziou Franck/Hemis/Corbis A century ago, Panama beat out Nicaragua to snag one of the biggest ...

An assembly approved the project on Thursday The legislation contains no specific route or details of financing The estimated cost is %2440 million MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A multi-billion dollar ...