From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:15:52 -0000, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>> The confirmation hearings could be fun - Ortega is back in power after
>> democratic elections that even US observers believe were fair.
>
>And things could get fun down there:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6069022.stm
>
>"Opinion is divided on whether Nicaragua's $18bn canal project represents an
>unrealisable pipe dream - or a grand design from which one of the world's
>poorest countries will reap huge rewards."
>
>IMO it makes more sense than a Panama enlargement - it provides
>geographical, geological and political resilience and also price competition
>within the current Panama loading gauges.

From a glance it looks like it will have to be at least 4 or 5 times as
long as the Panama Canal.

>The only reason the USA might oppose it is political, and there's not much
>left in the influence account.

I doubt anyone here will oppose it.

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