I wonder what's going to happen to Panama when the Chinese finish building the new canal through Nicaragua. That's going to hurt Panama, especially after sinking all that money into the third canal.
China had also approached Costa Rica to do a canal there, but somehow Nicaragua won out on that one (but China did build that new stadium in San Jose, and took over and finished the toll highway from San Jose to the Pacific coast).
Don’t hold your breath on the Sandinistas completing a canal. The idea has been floating around since Cornelius Vanderbilt. Even he gave up on it.