U.S. on Nicaragua Canal: We’ll believe it when we see it
NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 6:00 AM U.S. on Nicaragua Canal: We’ll believe it when we see it A worker carries construction material on a ferry in Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca Lake, a body of water that could be a possible part of a planned Inter-Oceanic canal in Rivas, Nicaragua. Esteban Felix AP BY FRANCO ORDOÑEZ fordonez@mcclatchydc.com LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY WASHINGTON A senior State Department official has serious doubts about the prospects of a 172-mile, inter-oceanic canal across Nicaragua that would compete with the Panama Canal to the south. Nicaragua struck a controversial deal in 2013 with a little-known Chinese billionaire to dig the massive canal . The government’s deal with Wang Jing’s HKND Group is to build and operate a trans-oceanic canal, two ports and airport among other projects. The company broke ground ...