{"id":63919,"date":"2024-05-09T05:49:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/nicaragua-cancel-china-canal"},"modified":"2024-05-09T05:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:49:39","slug":"nicaragua-cancels-chinese-plan-for-controversial-canal-10-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63919","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics said proposal to build canal linking Atlantic and Pacific would endanger environment and rural communities<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade after it broke ground on a controversial plan to build a canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has canceled a concession granted to a Chinese businessman to complete the project which critics said would endanger the environment and displace rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a symbolic \u201cground-breaking\u201d in 2014, no work was done on the canal that was to link Nicaragua\u2019s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. At one point, crews broke ground on access roads near the canal but digging the waterway never started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/nicaragua-cancel-china-canal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics said proposal to build canal linking Atlantic and Pacific would endanger environment and rural communitiesNearly a decade after it broke ground on a controversial plan to build a canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific, Nicaragua has cancele&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,50,2209,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-nicaragua","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63919\/revisions\/63920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}