Thousands of Nicaraguans protest controversial canal project

‘Thousands of Nicaraguans have staged a protest rally in a central city to voice their anger at a government decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial construction of a canal through their lands.

On Saturday, around 15,000 protesters, mainly farmers whose lands lies on the waterway’s planned route, gathered from across the country in the central Nicaraguan city of Juigalpa.

The demonstrators shouted “No to the canal,” waving Nicaragua’s national flags during the rally.’

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