I’m late to this. But I hadn’t heard the plans to build a new Central American canal – through Nicaragua and funded by a Chinese consortium – are so far advanced. Amazing mix of issues of engineering, geography, faltering US economic clout and political initiative, China’s economic rise and the long memory of Daniel Ortega.
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