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December 22nd , 2014 officially started the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. The start construction ceremony of this huge project (estimated cost over 50 billion dollars and record dimensions: 278km long and 500m wide approx.) has been welcomed by several controversies, in addition to causing protests by anti-canal demonstrators and the indigenous of the ethnic groups "ramas" and "Nahua" against the great inconvenience that the construction of the might cause to the native population and agriculture of the country.