Since the beginning of the week at least 500 cargo trucks from Central American countries have been unable to get around a blockade in the department of Carazo.
Since the afternoon of last Monday, traffic has reportedly been totally shutdown in the area known as Dolores, near the municipality of Jinotepe, because protesters opposed to the Ortega administration are blocking roads.
On December 22 the concessionaire of the Grand Canal in Nicaragua, HKND started preliminary works, including the construction of access roads to the excavation sites and other facilities.
Representatives from the Nicaraguan government and the president of the Chinese company HKND, Wang Jing, inaugurated the start of the project to build the canal, which will start, according to the concessionaire, with the ancillary works which are needed before the main work can be begin.
They have not managed to reach an agreement with local slaughterhouses on the upward adjustment of sales prices of livestock.
They have asked the Nicaraguan government for approval to sell three thousand head of cattle to slaughterhouses in the region where better prices are paid.
This was announced by representatives from the Federation of Livestock Associations of Nicaragua (Faganic).
The plan is to strengthen trade relations with Nicaragua and negotiate a trade agreement with the group composed of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
At a meeting between the Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird and the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, the official explained that "our trade has increased five times in recent years. I want to work with you, the government, the Nicaraguan people and businesses to continue to improve our business relationships. "