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Photos:: Secrecy and doubt shroud Nicaragua’s plans for a huge shipping canal

A boat navigates Lake Cocibolca, also known as Lake Nicaragua, near Granada in June 2013. Plans for a $50-billion shipping canal would divide Nicaragua in two as it traveled from the Pacific to the Caribbean, bisecting Central America's largest lake and dwarfing the 100-year-old Panama Canal.

A boat navigates Lake Cocibolca, also known as Lake Nicaragua, near Granada in June 2013. Plans for a $50-billion shipping canal would divide Nicaragua in two as it traveled from the Pacific to the Caribbean, bisecting Central America’s largest lake and dwarfing the 100-year-old Panama Canal.   (Esteban Felix / Associated Press)

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If all goes according to the way the Nicaraguan government insists it will, work on a $50-billion canal as well as a system of seaports, an oil pipeline, airport, free-trade zones and other infrastructure will begin this year.

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