The Rama travel their coastal homeland with wooden dories and small motorboats, which would be eclipsed by megaships traversing the Nicaragua Canal. Emily Liedel This article is from Hakai Magazine, ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — After nearly a decade, Nicaragua's congress finally canceled on Wednesday a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the ...

Nicaragua's planned $50 billion canal project is "fraught with risks and uncertainties," and could cause more harm than good unless the government and its Chinese builder fund a host of mitigation ...

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 ...

Nicaragua presented at the St. Nicaragua presented at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia the construction of the Nicaraguan canal that will be under the management of the ...

It has been almost a century since the Panama Canal opened to shipping traffic, and it is still the only route ships can take to cut across the Central American isthmus. Even before the Panama Canal ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s government and Hong Kong-based HKND Group on Monday unveiled the route of a proposed $40 billion inter-ocean canal to compete with the Panama Canal that ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Fist-pumping Sandinistas and unknown Chinese businessmen are gathering in Nicaragua’s capital today to break ground on the largest — and most baffling — engineering project in the ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaragua on Monday announced the start of work on a $50 billion shipping canal, an infrastructure project backed by China that aims to rival Panama's waterway and revitalize the ...

(AP) Six months after the Sandinista government granted a Chinese businessman a 100-year concession to build a vast canal across Nicaragua, most of the nation is in the thrall of the imagined waterway ...

Many hopes in Nicaragua are pinned to a plan to build a $40 billion, 173-mile route that will bring shipping from the Caribbean Sea through to the Pacific Ocean and lift the Central American country ...