#NewWorldReport: PRC buys Ortega. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

Photo:  The Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project (also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean. Financing was headed by Wang Jing, a Chinese businessman.  Some years down the road, a reporter went to see how it was getting on, and found: a field with cows. Nothing else relevant.

Lake Nicaragua was to have been a centerpiece of the development. Here: Lake Nicaragua.

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Evan Ellis, professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

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