In Nicaragua, Chinese mining corporations now management over a million hectares. This is what emerges from official knowledge analyzed by Noticias100%, Confidencial and La Prensa, based on which the federal government led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has assigned 72 concessions a 16 Chinese corporations in lower than three years, exceeding the edge of 1,004,000 hectares earmarked for mining.
Four corporations focus round 70% of the concessions and surfaces, with packages that in some instances exceed 200 thousand hectares every, distributed between the north of the nation and the autonomous Caribbean areas.
The concessions, typically transferred between associated corporations, concern areas that, as a complete, exceed a number of Nicaraguan departments in dimension.
Secondo Noticias100%, Confidencial e La Prensa, environmental organizations denounce preferential remedy reserved for Chinese operators: accelerated procedures, lowered environmental evaluation obligations and concessions additionally issued in protected areas.
Part of the areas additionally fall inside mineral reserves managed by state entities already sanctioned by the United States.
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