{"id":6403,"date":"2012-12-07T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:20:26","slug":"guatemalan-government-uninvolved-in-dry-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/guatemalan-government-uninvolved-in-dry-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan Government Uninvolved in Dry Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dry-canal1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6405\" title=\"dry canal\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dry-canal1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dry-canal1.gif 350w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/dry-canal1-300x219.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Nicaragua (shown above), now Guatemala have proposed Dry Canals across their countries.\u00a0 The government of Guatemala disavows any relationship to the project and are smart to do that as these projects will never get off the ground.\u00a0 The Panama Canal can deliver a transit at a lower cost than over land transport, especially when the\u00a0 super ships can access the new waterway in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>It has been pointed out that neither the government nor the National  Alliance for the Development of Economic Infrastructure have ties to  the Inter-Oceanic Corridor mega project.<\/p>\n<p>While spokesmen for the companies behind the project announced the start of construction of the first phase in July 2013, it has still not been explained how  the initial cost, estimated at $7.5 billion, will be 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