Nicaragua in perspective |
A retrospective essay on Nicaragua ten years after the end of the Sandinista period.
The Nicaraguan "dry canal" in multimedia |
An international consortium is proposing to build a mega-project in Nicaragua: a "dry canal" comprising a high-speed railroad and two deep-water ports to move containers across the Central American isthmus. Originally produced for MSNBC News, now in an expanded version, these multimedia pieces are based on research in Nicaragua in October and November, 1996, and interviews with dry canal officials and sources in the international shipping industry in 1997. I believe I am the first journalist to have visited both proposed sites of the dry canal ports.
Elections, October 1996 |
Peter Costantini wrote about the 1996 Nicaraguan elections for MSNBC News. He previously co-led an observer delegation to the Nicaraguan elections of 1990 for Northwest-Nicaragua Electoral Watch and taught at the National Engineering University in Managua in 1986. He has also covered elections in Mexico and Haiti, and is Seattle correspondent for Inter Press Service, an international newswire based in Rome.