12/3/02	The Plan Puebla Panama In a Nutshell -- Since President Vicente Fox of Mexico announced the birth of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) in 2000, hundreds of articles have come out on the subject. 17 Questions are answered here.("Chiapas Today" Bulletin No. 312)
8/24/02	NGOs say Mexico's Panama Plan economic arm of military strategy -- Mexico's Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP) initiative is a government strategy aimed at crushing indigenous rebel uprisings in southern Mexico and at stemming the tide of immigrants from Central America, several NGOs claimed Thursday.(Edgar Hernandez, EFE)
8/24/02	Thousands of Indians Protest Fox backed Development Plan -- Close to 15,000 Mayans from dozens of communities across Chiapas state took to the streets of this mountain city Friday, protesting President Vicente Fox's development plan for southern Mexico and Central America.(Alejandro Ruiz, The News Mexico)
7/3/02	Regional leaders to increase integration with Puebla-Panama Plan -- The leaders of Mexico and Central America on Friday wrapped up a summit where they discussed regional integration and progress on the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP), the isthmus-long development program that has become the axis of their relations.(EFE)
7/3/02	Central America seek closer ties at meeting of regional leaders -- While leaders of the world's most developed nations met in Canada to deal with the fallout of globalization, presidents from Mexico and Central America gathered here late Thursday to try and get a foothold in the global economy.(AP Mexico)
7/3/02	Investors look at Puebla-Panama investment opportunities -- Over 500 companies are expected to take part in the Puebla-Panama Plan "Expo-Inversion," a trade show to be held later this week in Merida, Yucatan, that will run parallel to the summit meeting of the presidents of Mexico and Central America.(The News Mexico)
7/3/02	Official Says: Puebla-Panama plan is not "savage capitalism" -- The coordinator of a mega development project that will extend from southern Mexico to Panama responded Tuesday to its critics, saying the plan is not one of "savage capitalism" and will not destroy the environment or erode Indian rights.(EFE)
6/19/02	Neither Nations Nor Corporations: -- Unsustainable extraction of natural resources, slash-and-burn agriculture, and ranching are leading to the rapid demise of rainforests. Although restoration ecology and conservation initiatives must begin immediately, they can never succeed without addressing the lack of economic alternatives and basic human services like healthcare and education. (Megan Ybarra)
6/3/02	The Maquilas (Assembly Plants) in Mexico are militarised says Klein: -- Klein, who was born in Toronto Canada, explained during a press conference in the Social Transatlantic Forum (Foro Social Transatlántico), that when she hears the words "free trade" two images spring to her mind: the "militarised" maquiladoras from the north of Mexico and the detention centres for migrants she has visited in Australia. (La Jornada)
5/29/02	Declaration From The First Mesoamerican Campesino Encounter -- More than 250 delegates representing 52 campesino organizations and indigenous groups, who carried the interests hundreds of thousands of small and medium scale producers from Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama gathered in Tapachula, Chiapas, from May 3rd 5th, 2002, in the First Mesoamerican Campesino Encounter.
4/29/02	Florencio Salazar, coordinator of the Plan Puebla Panama, "The region needs to stop depending on the maquiladora industry" -- The maquiladoras represent a fountain of employment. Although they meet an immediate need, they are volatile and only look to pay low wages. With the plan, he believes that the area will offer investors qualified workers in order to depend less on this sector. (El Periodico)
3/17/02	Foro por la Vida, Guatemala, Plan Puebla Panama and Indigenous Survival -- From March 20th to 24th, representatives of indigenous communities, local civil society and Non Governmental Organizations from Mexico, Central and South America, Europe and the USA will be meeting in a small village near the Mexican Guatemalan border to plan how to resist dam projects in the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP). (Indymedia Chiapas)
3/15/02	PFP will be dislocating 35 villages from Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve -- Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities and various civil organizations have been repeatedly denouncing the imminent eviction of some 35 villages inside and around the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve. (La Jornada)
3/11/02	Gov't indifferent as assembly jobs flee Mexico -- Some 10 to 15 years ago, when the assembly-plant (maquiladora) industry began to grow in earnest, many Mexicans used to say this was not what the country really needed. (News Mexico)
3/10/02	The neoliberal economic model has died -- Historically opposed to the neoliberal model, James Cockcroft specified that the Puebla-Panama Plan could be the "final blow" against the indigenous communities if we prove that "we are not capable of defeating these intentions with resistance movements". (La Jornada)
2/28/02	Maquiladora union "blacklist" condemned -- Social activists and human rights groups joined forces on Wednesday to denounce the planned creation of an "employment bureau" in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez. The bureau, they say, will blacklist maquiladora workers involved in union activities and is a violation of human rights. (News Mexico)
2/25/02	Work to get under way on Puebla-Panama Plan -- Hopes are high some 20 highway projects in southern Mexico and Central America, as well as a major power transmission line to interconnect all the nations in the region, can get under way this year, as soon as authorization is given for a group of loans totaling 3.5 billion dollars, which are currently being put together under the auspices of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID). (News Mexico)
2/19/02	Armando BARTRA -- The South is the deep planet. Baptized and limited by an expansive and colonizing north that since the beginning has defined the upper and lower sections of the map of the world, the South is a geographic but also symbolic concept. An allegory that connects prodigal nature with social indigence, opulent and lush vegetation with an inert, sluggish, incontinent, barbaric humanity. (Mesoamerica.com)
1/20/02	Civil organization, DESMI, confirms that the miliary siege has deteriorated conditions -- Since Mexico, Canada, and United States signed NAFTA, preliminary mechanisms to appropriate energy resources laid the groundwork for privatization and the conditioning of the agrarian policy," affirmed DESMI. (La Jornada)
1/2002	The maquiladoras: The mirage disappears -- From Torreon to Juarez, from Matamoros to Puebla, the maquiladora industry is showing its true face: that of a mirage that is fading away. In one year, the sector that formed the backbone of the Mexican export industry has passed from its prime into decay, leaving 150,000 unemployed workers in its wake. (Proceso)
12/16/01	Let the Puebla-Panamá Plan Shake: Countryside revolts in Xelajú -- How come a government program promising much (recently with whispering tones) and achieving little provokes such a widespread and passionate response? (La Jornada)
12/2001	The PPP's new plantations -- The tides of neoliberal modernism are condemning Chiapan fincas, or plantations, to extinction. The fincas are being replaced by women's garment manufacturers, the new maquiladora sweatshops fostered by the Plan Puebla Panama. (Andres Aubry)
12/7/01	Farmers from Puebla support Alenco ejidatarios -- Farmer representatives of 18 villages from the Tepeaca area in Puebla joined the ejidatarios movement in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco. (La Jornada)
11/23/01	Interview with Neil Harvey -- Neil Harvey is the author of The Chiapas Rebellion and Professor at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. The interview was conducted at the 'Second Forum "Frente a la Globalizacio'n: El Pueblo es Primero"' in Xelaju', Guatemala. (Indymedia Chiapas)
11/19/01	Availability of cheap labor in the South does not compensate for the absence of proximity with the USA -- The maquiladoras still find the The Puebla-Panamá Plan and the "Marcha al Sur" Program unattractive, even after President Fox's invitation to contribute to the creation of a "great corridor" for the industrial, commercial and services sectors. (La Jornada)
11/17/01	Abascal underlines that the industry is a model for the new culture of the working classes -- Carlos Abascal Carranza, the labor Secretary of State, affirmed today that the Mexican industry is "a model of the new working-class culture" that the Vicente Fox government pretends to establish, and that it is "something we must be proud of." (La Jornada)
11/1/01	Sponsored by the World Bank, the "Biological Corridor" is under wing of the PPP -- To the environmental groups and civilian organizations of southeastern Mexico and Central American countries, the so called Mesoamerican Biological Corridor being financed by the World Bank, is the most dangerous project included in the Panama Puebla Plan (PPP). (Information and Comunication Inc., Mexico.)
10/27/01	Denunciations in Tabasco of Fox's project -- The project Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) operates in Tabasco by means of the dispossession of land belonging to ejidos and small holders who have been told that they will be imprisoned if they refuse to give up what is their only inheritance. (Proceso Sur)
10/27/01	Mesoamerican Biological Corridor: Captive of the Plan Puebla Panama -- For civil organizations and environmental groups of southeastern Mexico and Central America, the most dangerous aspect of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) is the World Bank-financed Mesoamerican Biological Corridor "because it looks to exploit the vast natural resources of the zone for large transnational corporations." (Proceso Sur)
10/26/01	Honduran indigenous group decries Puebla-Panama Plan -- A Honduran indigenous organization on Thursday slammed President Vicente Fox's Puebla-Panama Plan, charging it only intends to exploit natural resources and enslave workers in the region. (The News Mexico)
10/2001	Development in Mexico: As established policies are nurtured, the hopes of many Mexicans wither on the vine -- Experts on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border agree that an essential ingredient in any recipe aimed at stemming Mexican migration to the United States is creating more hometown opportunities south of the border. But while the two countries' shared migration dilemma sits front and center on the U.S.-Mexico agenda, the majority of development projects that have emerged for Mexico under the Fox and Bush administrations do not reflect that assessment. Rather, the development envisioned is more of the same kind that has failed to alleviate migration in the past: maquiladoras, megaprojects, and greater trade liberalization. (Borderlines)
Autumn 2001	New Corporate Development from Southeastern Mexico to Panama -- When Vincente Fox, in early 2001, announced his comprehensive plan for a major transportation and industrial corridor from Puebla, Mexico all the way to Panama, it immediately drew fire from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Subcommandante Marcos denounced the plan saying, "the Isthmus is not for sale!" (ACERCA)
7/7/01	A summit meeting is organized in Quintana Roo Mayas against the Puebla-Panama Plan -- The Pueblo-Panama Plan (PPP) has raised red flags within the Mayan communities from south of Mexico to Central American. Arriving from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras , Belize, and the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quitana Roo (this last state acting as the host), delegates of the great Mayan people will unite to analyze what the PPP represents and to determine a position to take against the threats that this plan raises for these people. (Communication and Information S.A. of C.V.)
7/6/01	The Puebla-Panama Plan and the indigenous counter reform -- Indigenous autonomies, understood to be local and regional sociocultural entities from which a pluralistic nation and culture may be constructed from the bottom up, confront our nation's oligarchy and its modernizing neoliberal programs. (La Jornada)
6/2001	The Plan Puebla Panama -- The Plan Puebla Panama, or PPP, is a vast project intended to open up Central America to free trade. But opposition to it is growing. It is the next stage in the "globalisation" of Central America. It is happening with little fanfare, but its implications are huge. (The Ecologist)
6/16/01	Central America Joins Mexico in Plan -- Mexico and Central America hope to build both literal and metaphoric bridges between their countries with a sweeping new economic development plan. Plan Puebla-Panama, known as the "Plan of the three P's," promotes tourism, trade, education, and environmental care while facilitating travel between the countries and connecting power grids from Mexico's Puebla state to Panama. (Associated Press)
6/16/01	Fox affirmed that he will continue with trips to the other countries to attract investors -- President Vicente Fox Quesada stated that, just as he had done in Japan, he would make it clear that his government "is from businesspeople, by businesspeople, for businesspeople". (La Jornada)
6/15/01	PRODH denounces the Puebla Panamá Plan and Fox' visit to El Salvador -- Once more Vicente Fox made yesterday a series of declarations regarding the Chiapas conflict that not only demonstrate his lack of sensitivity on the subject, but also the imposition of the unilateral decision of the federal government to impel the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP), a development plan that will take into account the economic interests of the transnational companies and the United States, but not those of the communities that populate those territories and which in theory are supposed to be its main beneficiaries. (PRODH Communique)
6/1/01	A Man, A Plan, Expansion: The Puebla-Panama Plan -- The first hint of Fox's plans for southern Mexico appeared on the front page of Oaxaca's primary newspaper on September 5, three months before his inauguration. (Institute of Current World Affairs)
Spring 2001	The Puebla Panama Plan-Savage Interventionism and Colonization in Southeastern Mexico -- The Puebla Panama Plan (PPP) is part of a comprehensive program combining political, economic and military interventionism. (Carlos Fazio)
4/17/01	Strengths, Opportunities and Threats of the PPP -- The Plan Puebla Panama document...highlighting that the region between Mexico and Central America can turn into a " world class hub of development in Latin America". (La Jornada)
4/17/01	The Panama Puebla Plan -- The Puebla Panama Plan (PPP) is part of the strategy driven by the World Banks (BM) and Interamerican Development (BM) to -according to their concept- create "a pole of world class development in Latin America, a new form of planning and an action to participate in a decisive manner in the macro region." (La Jornada)
2/26/01	"Isthmus of Tehuantepec Not For Sale" - Marcos -- "The isthmus is not for sale", says Subcomandante Marcos while addressing a crowd assembled along the side of a highway. The gathering occurred in La Ventosa, just a few kilometers from Juchitan on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. (La Jornada)
1/5/01	$80 Billion Peso Program for Mexico's Southeast -- The federal government has an ambitious economic development program for Mexico's marginalized Southeastern region. The program aims to pull the zone forward economically from being the region with the highest rate of poverty in the country.