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RIO GRANDE, Nicaragua - As a conscripted soldier during the Contra War of the 1980s, Esteban Ruiz used to f hoka schuhe lee from battles because he didn t want to have to kill anyone. But now, as the 47-year-old farmer prepares to fight for his land, Ruiz insists, I m not going to ru yeezy 350 n. Ruiz s property on the banks of Nicaragua s Rio Grande sits in the path of a $50 billion transoceanic waterway set to break ground on Monday.Nicaraguan officials will start building access roads on state-owned land as the first step in creating a canal expected to rival that of Panama - a project supporters say will directly employ 50,000 people and dramatically boost the country s GDP.Farmers like Ruiz insist they ll fight until the last breath to protect their land. Whether or not landowners do actually take up arms, Nicaragua s government insists it is determined to push through.The project is slated to open a huge waterway over what is now the town of Rio Grande, an evangelical-dominated community of 2,000 people with only a dirt road amid fields of corn, beans, banana and sorghum. Everything within 6 miles would be subject to expropriation. But the project, which opponents call President Daniel Ortega s pipe dream, is provoking growing anger.Many complain Ortega is giving too much away to HKND, the Hong K mizuno running ong-based company set to develop and operate it. Landowners fear they ll be displaced without fair compensation. Environmentalists accuse the government of ram-rodding past mandated reviews a Pgru Elon Musk says tweet about buying Manchester United was a joke
Italian soldiers began arriving Saturday in Lebanon, part of the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to boost the U.N. force keeping the peace between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.Italian marines wearing blue berets arrived by helicopter in the Mediterranean port city of Tyre to secure two beaches where the remainder of an 880-strong battalion of Italian soldiers will land through the day. Another 200 Italian troops are expected Sunday in the capital, Beirut.International troops have been slow to arrive in Lebanon since an Aug. 14 cease-fire brought an end to 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, in stanley cup usa part because it took time to hammer out details over the troops mandate.Besides the Italian contingent, just 250 extra French soldiers have made it to the country, though France has said it will send a total of kubki stanley 2,000 troops.Also Saturday, Indonesia s Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda announced his country will send up to 1,000 troops to southern Lebanon by the month s end, after Israel dropped objections to its participation in the force. Israel had said it did not want stanley cup quencher Indonesia to take part because the predominantly Muslim nation did not have relations with the Jewish state. The 2,000-strong U.N. force is to be expanded over the next few months to 15,000 under a U.N. Security Council resolution that paved the way for the cease-fire. The peacekeepers are supposed to deploy with an equal number of Lebanese soldiers across south Lebanon a
RIO GRANDE, Nicaragua - As a conscripted soldier during the Contra War of the 1980s, Esteban Ruiz used to f hoka schuhe lee from battles because he didn t want to have to kill anyone. But now, as the 47-year-old farmer prepares to fight for his land, Ruiz insists, I m not going to ru yeezy 350 n. Ruiz s property on the banks of Nicaragua s Rio Grande sits in the path of a $50 billion transoceanic waterway set to break ground on Monday.Nicaraguan officials will start building access roads on state-owned land as the first step in creating a canal expected to rival that of Panama - a project supporters say will directly employ 50,000 people and dramatically boost the country s GDP.Farmers like Ruiz insist they ll fight until the last breath to protect their land. Whether or not landowners do actually take up arms, Nicaragua s government insists it is determined to push through.The project is slated to open a huge waterway over what is now the town of Rio Grande, an evangelical-dominated community of 2,000 people with only a dirt road amid fields of corn, beans, banana and sorghum. Everything within 6 miles would be subject to expropriation. But the project, which opponents call President Daniel Ortega s pipe dream, is provoking growing anger.Many complain Ortega is giving too much away to HKND, the Hong K mizuno running ong-based company set to develop and operate it. Landowners fear they ll be displaced without fair compensation. Environmentalists accuse the government of ram-rodding past mandated reviews a Pgru Elon Musk says tweet about buying Manchester United was a joke
Italian soldiers began arriving Saturday in Lebanon, part of the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to boost the U.N. force keeping the peace between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.Italian marines wearing blue berets arrived by helicopter in the Mediterranean port city of Tyre to secure two beaches where the remainder of an 880-strong battalion of Italian soldiers will land through the day. Another 200 Italian troops are expected Sunday in the capital, Beirut.International troops have been slow to arrive in Lebanon since an Aug. 14 cease-fire brought an end to 34 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, in stanley cup usa part because it took time to hammer out details over the troops mandate.Besides the Italian contingent, just 250 extra French soldiers have made it to the country, though France has said it will send a total of kubki stanley 2,000 troops.Also Saturday, Indonesia s Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda announced his country will send up to 1,000 troops to southern Lebanon by the month s end, after Israel dropped objections to its participation in the force. Israel had said it did not want stanley cup quencher Indonesia to take part because the predominantly Muslim nation did not have relations with the Jewish state. The 2,000-strong U.N. force is to be expanded over the next few months to 15,000 under a U.N. Security Council resolution that paved the way for the cease-fire. The peacekeepers are supposed to deploy with an equal number of Lebanese soldiers across south Lebanon a
