Nicaragua, October 1996

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FF0000" onload="statusDisplay(defaultstr);">   <P> <A HREF="../index.htm" TITLE="Home page of the Cosine"><B><SPAN onmouseover="colorchange(this); statusDisplay(homeboystr); return;" onmouseout="colorback(this); statusDisplay(defaultstr); return;">Peter Costantini: Ecce Homeboy</SPAN></B></A> </P> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=75% ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" CELLSPACING=24 CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=0 BACKGROUND="images/adobe.gif"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="center" BGCOLOR="#ffdead"> <H1 ALIGN="center">Nicaragua, October 1996</H1> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN="center"> Articles and photos by <A HREF="#author" TITLE="Who is this guy anyway?"><SPAN onmouseover="colorchange(this); statusDisplay(pcstr);" onmouseout="colorback(this); statusDisplay(defaultstr);">Peter Costantini</SPAN></A> </P> </CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=60% ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" CELLSPACING=12 CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=0 BACKGROUND="images/adobe.gif"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="center" BGCOLOR="#ffdead"> <H3 ALIGN="center">The Nicaraguan "dry canal" in multimedia</H3> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <DIV STYLE="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva; font-size: 60%; margin-top: 1em; background-color: #eeeeee" onmouseover="sizechange(this);" onmouseout="sizeback(this);"> 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. </DIV> <P> <DL> <DT><A HREF="drycanal/drycanal.htm"><B><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.DryCanal); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.DryCanal); colorback(this);">"Dry canal" across Nicaragua breathes new life into old dream</SPAN></B></A> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="DryCanal">The expanded and updated version of the story that originally ran on MSNBC News</SPAN> </DL> </P> <P> <DL> <DT><A HREF="drycanal/containr/shipng01.htm"><IMG SRC="images/slidesho.gif" ALIGN=left VALIGN=top VSPACE=2 HSPACE=2 BORDER=0 ALT="Slide/audio show"><B><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.Shipping); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.Shipping); colorback(this);">Slide/audio show: Shipping industry</SPAN></B></A> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="Shipping">The container shipping industry seeks new routes across the Americas.</SPAN> </DL> </P> <P> <DL> <DT><A HREF="drycanal/monkeypt/monkey01.htm"><IMG SRC="images/slidesho.gif" ALIGN=left VALIGN=top VSPACE=2 HSPACE=2 BORDER=0 ALT="Slide/audio show"><B><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.Monkey); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.Monkey); colorback(this);">Slide/audio show: Monkey Point</SPAN></B></A> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="Monkey">Monkey Point, the Caribbean terminus of the proposed dry canal, and Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast</SPAN> </DL> </P> <P>  <DL> <DT><B><A HREF="drycanal/msnbc/104635.htm"><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.MSNBC); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.MSNBC); colorback(this);">Building a new route between oceans</SPAN></A></B> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="MSNBC">The MSNBC News version of this story that ran on http://www.msnbc.com in late August and early September.</SPAN> </DL> </P> <TABLE WIDTH=60% ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" CELLSPACING=12 CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=0 BACKGROUND="images/adobe.gif"> <TR> <TD ALIGN="center" BGCOLOR="#ffdead"> <H3 ALIGN="center">Elections, October 1996</H3> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P> <DL> <DT><A HREF="thermido.htm"><B><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.Thermidor); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.Thermidor); colorback(this);">Nicaragua's Thermidorian reaction</SPAN></B></A> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="Thermidor">An evaluation of the elections of October 1996, their results and their implications for Nicaragua's future, based on an article published by <I>Sintonia</I>, an online review of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.</SPAN> </DL> </P> <P> <DL> <DT><A HREF="mission.htm"><B><SPAN onmouseover="toggle(document.all.Missionaries); colorchange(this);" onmouseout="toggle(document.all.Missionaries); colorback(this);">Missionaries and markets in Nicaragua</SPAN></B></A> <DD><SPAN STYLE="display: none" ID="Missionaries">A pre-election analysis of the Nicaraguan political prospect, expanding on an op-ed piece that appeared in the <I>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</I>.</SPAN> </DL> </P> <P ALIGN="center"> <IMG SRC="images/adobelin.gif" WIDTH=220 HEIGHT=14 BORDER=0 ALT="* * * * * * * * * *"><IMG SRC="images/adobelin.gif" WIDTH=220 HEIGHT=14 BORDER=0 ALT="* * * * * * * * * *"> </P> <A NAME="author"></A> <P CLASS="intro"> <FONT SIZE="-1"> <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 95%;"> <A HREF="mailto:Peter_Costantini@msn.com">Peter Costantini</A> 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. </SPAN> </FONT> </P> <P> <A HREF="../index.htm" TITLE="Home page of a writer toiling in well-deserved obscurity"><B><SPAN onmouseover="colorchange(this);" onmouseout="colorback(this);">Peter Costantini: Ecce Homeboy</SPAN></B></A> </P> </BODY>