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Chinese-planned canal would displace many in Nicaragua, sparking anger, anxiety
McClatchy dc ^ | 6-18-2015 | Tim Johnson

Posted on 06/18/2015 4:26:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

Edited on 06/18/2015 4:53:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Everything in the path of the proposed trans-oceanic canal in Nicaragua would have to be relocated. Churches. Cemeteries. Stockyards.

As many as 28,000 people scattered in villages and towns face the likelihood that their lands would be expropriated. The government pledges they will be better off, living in new settlements with a bit of cash in their pockets. But skepticism abounds. Ranchers are angry. They

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: canal; china; cuba; mexico; nicaragua; panama; panamacanal; venezuela
I wonder if the Pope will mention Nicaragua when he addresses congress in September?
1 posted on 06/18/2015 4:26:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

China will have its own “Panama Canal”

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2 posted on 06/18/2015 4:27:55 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Citizen Zed

China may find that Nicaragua is not China and the people not so easily moved.


3 posted on 06/18/2015 4:28:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Citizen Zed

I thought it was only Evil American Capitalists that did this sort of thing.


4 posted on 06/18/2015 4:31:07 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: silverleaf

Not a Chinaman’s chance...


5 posted on 06/18/2015 4:40:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Citizen Zed

The idea of a Nicaraguan canal has been around since the days of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Not going to happen.


6 posted on 06/18/2015 4:44:00 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Hillary Kardashian Clinton - famous for being infamous)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Not a Chinaman’s chance...”.....

While a clever pun, long ago I learned never to say never.


7 posted on 06/18/2015 4:47:07 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: silverleaf

They already have the Panama Canal ... that will give them two.


8 posted on 06/18/2015 5:26:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: peyton randolph

IIRC overcoming the enormous engineering challenges and structural complexities of the Panama Canal was seen as less daunting a task than digging a sea level canal through Nicaragua, even with the available technology of more than a century ago.

What makes the Chinese think they can succeed in Nicaragua now probably has to do with their “success” in re-engineering the Yangtze River, where the concerns of the local populace mean little to the communist bosses in Beijing.


9 posted on 06/18/2015 5:26:21 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Citizen Zed



10 posted on 06/18/2015 5:43:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: Citizen Zed

The Sandinistas are more or less back in power in Nicaragua. They are sympatico with this Pope.


11 posted on 06/18/2015 5:48:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Citizen Zed

Maybe a President Trump intends to get the Chinese to build the canal across our entire southern border. They can build it, maintain it and guard it. That would save them a lot of money in shipping time and distance, and we could work a debt-reduction deal, using illegals as laborers — a pathway to repatriation in Mexico. Win-win-win!

12 posted on 06/18/2015 5:49:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: silverleaf

These are pitiful, tear-jerking personal stories. But how are they different from the stories of the farmers and families displaced by the Tennessee Valley Authority dams and lakes decreed under Roosevelt? Socialist regimes get the public works (and anything else) they want, regardless of the cost to individuals and their property and freedom. Nothing to see here. Move along


13 posted on 06/18/2015 6:54:38 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Public works will be definition displace people. My own family lost the house my dad grew up in to a flood control impoundment in KS.

But people also complain about CA not building more dams and reservoirs and canals. All of which would displace people and animals.

Infrastructure always causes some people grief. Whether built by commies or capitalists. That is not, of itself, a reason not to build it. Although those displaced should be adequately compensated, as indeed our constitution requires. Though not always followed.


14 posted on 06/18/2015 7:47:28 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Thanks Citizen Zed. The canal will also help the Sandinistas strengthen their hold on the drug traffic north.

15 posted on 06/18/2015 9:11:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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