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Alarm as Nicaragua starts canal route survey

Thursday, August 28, 2014


Teams of assessors accompanied by soldiers and police have begun surveying properties along the route of Nicaragua's planned interoceanic canal, taking quick steps toward the start of a vast project the country has dreamed of for more than a century.

But the process is alarming many residents, who say they fear they'll lose their homes and receive unfair compensation.

Teams from the China-based HKND Group this month began interviewing property owners in the Brito River region in southwest Nicaragua, where the first phase of the $40 billion, 278-kilometer canal is supposed to be built starting late this year.

Source: AP