Don Bosco and Joe Tangredi - The Dry Canal Project

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April 11, 2008· Filed Under Blogging 

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Yesterday evening I had an interesting chat with one Don Mario Bosco, an international law specialist and entrepreneur who heads the $2.64 billion CINN project concerning the construction of a ‘dry canal’ in Nicaragua.

Just what is a ‘dry canal’, you may be wondering. Well, it’s basically a rail corridor which functions in much the same way as the water filled Panama canal, for example. Containers are offloaded from a deep sea port on the Atlantic side and taken by high speed rail link to another deep sea port on the Pacific side of Nicaragua, and vice versa.

Aside from boosting the Nicaraguan economy, this project is also highly environmentally friendly in that no huge ‘real’ canal needs to be gouged out of the Nicaraguan landscape. It sounds like an extremely worthwhile project and I do hope it goes ahead. However, the project has been being blocked by Nicaraguan politicians, including a former president, who wish to promote the construction of an environmentally unfriendly ‘wet canal’.

I’ll try to get an update on the situation from Joe Tangredi.

As a matter of interest, it was Joe Tangredi of Volette.com who introduced me to Don Bosco, which is no surprise when you learn that Joe is the dry canal project’s Director of Public Affairs and Communications. Joe, who is another entrepreneurial lawyer, is also cooking something else up which may bring about big and worthwhile changes too.

Don Bosco is half Italian incidentally, and regularly spends his summers here, whereas Joe is one hundred percent Italian, even if he has lived for most of his life in the USA.

Knowing just how entrepreneurial Italians can be, it comes as no surprise to me to hear that those of Italian origin, such as Don and Joe, have brought their flair to the international stage, and are attempting to make the world a better place in the process.

Just imagine what kind of an international powerhouse Italy could become if it were less constrained by ineffective government and a lack of familiarity with English. An interesting thought, no?

I think I’ve already said it, but I going to say it once more: The simple art of blogging certainly is leading me in some fascinating directions at the moment!

As to what I was chatting with Don Bosco about - well, that will be revealed another time, if everything comes together, that is.

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