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	Nicaragua - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nicaragua is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean.
		The United States was interested in a transisthmian canal (see Nicaragua Canal), and its interest was heightened by the discovery of gold in California.
		The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) settled some of the issues between Great Britain and the United States concerning the proposed canal, but Nicaragua remained in a state of disorder that culminated in the temporary triumph (1855-57) of the filibuster William Walker.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-nicrgu.html (1612 words)

	An 'Eco-Canal' across Nicaragua
		The canal is to be constructed based on a waterway used during the colonial era, according to an initiative drawn up by the Nicaraguan government and a group of entrepreneurs - and already approved by congress.
		This ''ecological'' canal would be 360 km long and is to connect the city of Granada, located at an extreme of Lake Nicaragua near the Pacific and just 45 km south of Managua, with the Caribbean Sea, and thus the Atlantic.
		Nicaragua does not have any ports on the Atlantic, though 75 percent of its exports, which total some 600 million dollars annually, are destined for Europe and the eastern seaboard of the United States.
	www.tierramerica.net /2001/0506/iacentos.shtml (654 words)

	Nicaragua News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nicaragua's Congress has voted to ban all abortions, despite the concerns of diplomats, doctors and women's rights advocates that the issue has become politicized ahead of presidential elections.
		Nicaragua's legislature is expected today to approve a tough law that outlaws all forms of abortion, including those procedures intended to save the life of a pregnant woman.
		MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The United States warned its citizens on Tuesday to be vigilant in Nicaragua in case there are violent protests around the hotly contested November 5 presidential election.A State...
	www.topix.net /world/nicaragua?full=e2467dd2bf (641 words)

	Nigaragua/Atrato River
		It was one of two canal concessions granted by the Government of New Granada at the same time, the other being for a canal using the Atrato and Napipi rivers.
		When the big lakes in Nicaragua were discovered in the early 1500's, they aroused immediate interest in their usefulness for a canal.
		The seventh was one skirting Lake Nicaragua and was studied primarily as a possible route for a sea-level canal.
	www.serve.com /CZBrats/Builders/atrato.htm (2189 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 10/19/2006 \| Nicaragua considers constructing Panama Canal alternative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		From the western side of the lake, 12 miles of canal would be built across the Isthmus of Rivas to reach the Pacific.
		Its outgoing president, Enrique Bolaños, says a canal could be built in 12 years and would open the way for giant tankers from Asia that cannot squeeze through Panama's 50-mile waterway.
		Nicaragua's canal commission plans to present proposed legislation for the venture in coming months.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/business/international/15792048.htm (565 words)

	Nicaragua Hopes to Rival Panama Canal: Price of Central American Ambition: $ 25bn and 10 Years' Construction RUPERT ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The canal would be wide and deep enough-to handle a new generation of "post-Panamax" container ships that are too big to fit through the Panama canal's locks.
		Nicaragua's dreams of a canal linking its Atlantic and Pacific coasts never died, and more than one government has dusted off the idea.
		A canal would be cut through a narrow strip of land separating the lake's shore from the Pacific.
	www.mindfully.org /Water/2003/Nicaragua-Canal23oct03.htm (799 words)

	TED CASE: Nicaragua Canal Proposal
		The canal's traffic has grown steadily and a boom in trade between Asia and South America and Africa is expected to sustain demand for the canal.
		The financially strapped country of Nicaragua is again hoping to fulfill their dream of a canal.
		Second, Nicaragua would have to undergo a radical transition to be adequately equipped for the new canal.
	www.american.edu /ted/NICCANAL.HTM (2828 words)

	The Sun Herald \| 10/19/2006 \| The Nicaragua Canal? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Its outgoing president, Enrique Bolanos, says a canal could be built in 12 years and would open the way for giant tankers from Asia that cannot squeeze through Panama's 50-mile waterway.
		Nicaragua's canal commission plans to present legislation for the venture in coming months.
		Environmentalists worry about the impact a Nicaraguan canal would have on wildlife, vegetation and indigenous people, while Nicaraguan authorities believe the benefits would be a doubling of gross national product and at least 150,000 new jobs.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/sunherald/business/15793995.htm (608 words)

	Nicaragua - United States Intervention, 1909-33
		Nicaragua and the United States signed but never ratified the Castill-Knox Treaty in 1914, giving the United States the right to intervene in Nicaragua to protect United States interest.
		Fearing a new round of conservative-liberal violence and worried that a revolution in Nicaragua might result in a leftist victory as happened a few years earlier in Mexico, the United States sent marines, who landed on the Caribbean coast in May 1926, ostensibly to protect United States citizens and property.
		United States authorities in Nicaragua mediated a peace agreement between the liberals and the conservatives in October 1926.
	countrystudies.us /nicaragua/10.htm (2048 words)

	Central America: Panama Canal
		In order to recover some of the money that was invested in the canal project, the French began looking for someone who would buy their equipment and the rights to build the canal in Panama.
		However, based on the recommendations of both Canal Commissions, the United States still favored building a canal in Nicaragua because it would be less expensive.
		The Panama Canal Treaty of 1903 gave the United States ownership of a path extending five miles on each side of the proposed canal.
	www.cet.edu /earthinfo/camerica/panama/PCtopic2.html (986 words)

	Panama Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The dream of a canal across the of Central America goes back centuries and there was discussion of its possible construction from the 1820s onwards.
		The United States used the canal during World War II to help revitalize their devastated Pacific Some of the largest ships the United had to send through the canal were aircraft carriers in particular the Essex class aircraft carrier.
		The canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it were administered by the States until 1999 when control was relinquished to Panama.
	www.freeglossary.com /Panama_Canal (1627 words)

	"Dry canal" across Nicaragua breathes new life into old dream
		"Nicaragua is open for business with the rest of the world," said Don Bosco, president of the private consortium that will build and run the system.
		Because the project transcends the interests of one government or generation, he said, the whole society needs to be involved in examining the social and environmental costs, perhaps through a national referendum.
		The proposed route of the dry canal railroad passes to the south.
	www.speakeasy.org /~peterc/nicaragua/drycanal/drycanal.htm (2356 words)

	Latin Business Chronicle
		Nicaragua has the second lowest GDP per capita in the Hemisphere, and a project of this magnitude would help reduce its 70 percent poverty rate.
		Nicaragua had been considered a site for a trans-isthmus canal before Panama, but was abandoned partly because of the country's seismic geology.
		Nicaragua's proposal presented in Managua estimates the project's cost at $18 billion, the canal would span 286 km, and involve four sets of threelevel, double-lane locks.
	www.latinbusinesschronicle.com /app/article.aspx?id=438 (821 words)

	Nicaragua Canal - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		NICARAGUA CANAL [Nicaragua Canal] proposed waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
		Under the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty (1916), the United States paid Nicaragua $3 million for an option in perpetuity and free of taxation, including 99-year leases to the Corn Islands and a site for a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca.
		Nicaragua rival for Panama Canal; World in brief.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-nicrgucnl.html (339 words)

	Business: NICARAGUA WANTS A CUT
		Nicaragua was rejected as a canal site by engineers a century ago because of the country's volcanic and earthquake activity.
		Rodolfo Sabonge, a top official of the Panama Canal Authority, the quasi-independent body that has run the canal since the United States turned it over to Panama in 1999, said there is not enough traffic to support the widened Panama Canal and a Nicaragua project.
		Last week, Nicaragua's president told reporters in Managua that his government had been studying a canal proposal for "six or seven years." He said Nicaragua's canal would take a decade to build and when completed would be more modern than Panama's.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/10/03/Business/NICARAGUA_WANTS_A_CUT.shtml (944 words)

	Nicaragua plans rival canal route \| Nicaragua Living
		I asked her in front of all present what was her opinion on a posible canal project in Nicaragua..., she answered she hadn't heard anything about the subject.
		Finally, this dry canal article talks about the 1996 plans for a canal that were "going to happen next year".
		Nicaragua was the original (geographically and topographically better) location before the panama canal was built.
	www.nicaliving.com /node/6713 (1568 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Nicaragua canal: just a pipe dream?
		Nicaragua's ambitious plans to build a new inter-oceanic waterway to rival the Panama Canal are making waves within the isthmus.
		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.
		Proponents of the Nicaragua plan have already been at pains to stress that their canal will meet a real need - that of the new breed of super-tankers too large to fit through even a widened Panama waterway.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/6069022.stm (903 words)

	Nicaragua - Foreign Intervention, 1850-68
		British and United States interests in Nicaragua grew during the mid-1800s because of the country's strategic importance as a transit route across the isthmus.
		Afraid of Britain's colonial intentions, Nicaragua held discussions with the United States in 1849, leading to a treaty that gave the United States exclusive rights to a transit route across Nicaragua.
		The contract also gave Vanderbilt exclusive rights, while the canal was being completed, to use a land-and-water transit route across Nicaragua, part of a larger scheme to move passengers from the eastern United States to California.
	countrystudies.us /nicaragua/8.htm (1641 words)

	NICARAGUA: Plan for Inter-Ocean Canal Reborn
		The canal would begin in Brito, in the southwestern department of Rivas on the Pacific coast, and end on the Caribbean coast, in the department of Atlántico Sur.
		The canal could introduce transmissible disease and would create a physical barrier to movement throughout Nicaraguan territory, which would be divided by the water route.
		The fourth plan is the Eco Canal, a small project compared with the others, to consist of an internal route for smaller ships to carry merchandise containers along the existing waterways of the San Juan River and Lake Cocibolca (also known as Lake Nicaragua).
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=20122 (895 words)

	Planet Ark : INTERVIEW - Nicaragua's Elusive "Grand Canal" Dream in Sight
		An international tender for a consortium of private companies to build and operate the canal, which would generate much-needed royalties for the impoverished nation, could be launched by the end of 2007, planners say.
		Nicaragua sees its canal taking 5 percent of the world shipping market, with a dozen or so 250,000 deadweight tonnage (dwt) super-freighters passing through each day.
		Environmentalists, however, are alarmed about the impact the canal would have on Nicaragua's tropical forests, indigenous villages living near the Caribbean coast and on coral reefs and sea life.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38652/story.htm (888 words)

	Nicaragua to unveil new canal proposal \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The "Grand Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal" would make use of the 60-mile wide Lake Nicaragua and follow at least part of a route first proposed by American and European entrepreneurs in the 19th century.
		With the century-old Panama Canal expected to reach the limit of its capacity soon, a boom in Asian commerce is fueling several proposals for new projects to ship containers across the Central American isthmus.
		Rodolfo Sabonge, a top official of the Panama Canal Authority, the quasi-independent body that has run the canal since the United States turned it over to Panama in 1999, said Friday that there is not enough traffic to support the widened Panama Canal and a Nicaragua project.
	www.ajc.com /metro/content/printedition/2006/10/02/natcanal1002a.html (481 words)

	Nicaragua Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal is a proposed waterway that would connect the Caribbean Sea, and therefore, the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean through Nicaragua, in Central America.
		On October 2, 2006, Presidente Enrique Bolaños at a summit for Defense ministers of the Western Hemisphere officially announced that Nicaragua had sincere intentions of going ahead with the project, and was the ground-breaking exposition of the project.
		Currently the committee for the canal is preparing a proposal to be approved by the National Parliament after which private companies may bid for the project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicaragua_Canal (1578 words)

	Yahoo News \| Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Washington, DC, October 30, 2006 – Women in Nicaragua suffered a terrible blow last Thursday when the Nicaraguan legislature voted in favor of a total ban on all abortions—even in cases of rape, incest or when the woman’s life is in danger.
		Although Nicaragua doesn’t have the advanced veterinary facilities, access to medicine and wealth of university-educated veterinarians to which Brianna Beechler is accustomed, she expects to learn much about animal care during her upcoming visit to the Central American country.
		Chinandega, Nicaragua — Nicaragua's leading conservative presidential candidate on Sunday accused Daniel Ortega, a rival and former president, of representing a return to civil-war violence, and urged voters to block his bid for office.
	www.wccnica.org /aggregator/sources/4?from=0 (914 words)

	With Panama overloaded, Nicaragua weighs digging a rival canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Along San Jorge's shores, where women wash clothes in the lapping waves of Lake Nicaragua, the project seems as far away as the blazing sun.
		Environmentalists worry about the impact a Nicaraguan canal would have on wild life, vegetation and indigenous people, while Nicaraguan authorities believe the benefits would be a doubling of gross national product and at least 150,000 new jobs.
		Supporting the plan is Jose Ignacio Sequeira, 53, a leader of indigenous communities on Ometepe, an island of twin volcanoes in Lake Nicaragua.
	www.azcentral.com /news/articles/1018NicaraguaCanal18-ON.html (750 words)

	Nicaragua Weighs Digging Rival Canal, Nicaragua Weighs Digging a Rival Canal With Panama Canal Increasingly Overloaded ...
		Nicaragua Weighs Digging Rival Canal, Nicaragua Weighs Digging a Rival Canal With Panama Canal Increasingly Overloaded - CBS News
		Nicaragua weighs digging a rival canal with Panama Canal increasingly overloaded
		Nicaraguan officials claim their canal could take 275,600-ton container tankers and ships _ more than double what Panama will be able to accommodate even after expanding.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/18/ap/world/mainD8KR6VOO0.shtml (841 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Nicaragua weighs rival canal
		Nicaragua's outgoing president, Enrique Bolaños, says a canal could be built in 12 years and would open the way for giant tankers from Asia that cannot squeeze through Panama's 50-mile waterway.
		Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader who is the front-runner in the Nov. 5 presidential election, is on record as backing the plan, though he says he wants to study it further.
		Nicaraguan officials claim their canal could take 275,600-ton container tankers and ships — more than double what Panama will be able to accommodate even after expanding.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003315601_nicaragua21.html (463 words)

	Panama Canal History - American Canal Construction
		Native villages and towns in the Canal Zone, in accordance with Articles VI and XV of the 1903 treaty, were required to move.
		Virtually everything that was needed for Canal construction, from equipment and building supplies to a labor force and food, would have to be brought to the Isthmus and distributed efficiently along the line of the canal.
		Stevens estimated completion time for a lock canal to be eight years, by January 1914; he estimated that a sea level canal couldn’t be completed in less than eighteen years, or around 1924.
	www.pancanal.com /eng/history/history/american.html (4591 words)

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