Save the Cruces Trail and Panama Canal Watershed

By  LUIS MANUEL GALEANO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN  |  Associated Press  –  11 hrs ago Email Share 9 Print View Photo Associated Press/Esteban Felix - In this June 7, 2013 photo, people push a boat into Lake Nicaragua, near Granada, Nicaragua. A multi-billion dollar Chinese plan to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal  across the middle of Nicaragua was headed for approval by the leftist-controlled National Assembly Thursday, June 13, 2013, capping a lightning-fast approval process that has provoked deep skepticism among shipping experts and intense concern among environmentalists. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)   less   RELATED CONTENT       View Photo CORRECTS TRANSLATION OF SIGN - … View Photo Anti-government protesters clash … MANAGUA,  Nicaragua  (AP) — In a matter of weeks, a little-known Chinese tycoon has hired some of the world's top experts ...

Nicaragua approves handing massive canal project to little-known Chinese company By  Luis Manuel Galeano and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press  |  Associated Press  –  5 hrs ago View Photo Associated Press - A demonstrator holds out a picture of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega that reads in Spanish "The biggest thief and traitor of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega illegal President" in front  of a line of police during a protest against a canal project outside the National Assembly in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday, June 13, 2013. A multi-billion dollar proposal to plow a massive rival to the Panama Canal across the middle of Nicaragua was approved by the National Assembly Thursday, capping a lightning-fast approval process that has provoked deep skepticism among shipping experts and concern among environmentalists. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A proposal to build a massive rival to the Panama...