Opponents of a Chinese company’s planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua charged that police have set up roadblocks and are harassing demonstrators heading to today’s protest in the nation’s capital.
The National Council in Defense of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty said that police had threatened drivers, seized vehicles and roughed up opponents.
Canal spokesman Telemaco Talavera denied that. “There is no police harassment of farmers,” he told local media. “If they are marching, it is because they believe there will be a canal. They have the right to dissent.”
Sceptics have doubted whether the canal concession, granted in 2014 to a Chinese company, will ever be built. It has barely broken ground.
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