9/12/02	Resisting the Plan Puebla-Panama -- A dynamic, crossborder citizens' movement in Mexico and Central America has emerged to challenge the Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP) an industrial development program being promoted by the Mexican government and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In just over a year, the movement has managed to bring significant public scrutiny to bear on the PPP, both on the home front and internationally.(IRC's Americas Program)
4/10/02	The acronym PPP takes on new meaning as canal projects reveal potential prospects for profiteering -- In the Pacific Nicaragua department of Rivas, two bulldozers and a steamroller gouge a path through the coast's dry forest and mangroves, transforming a narrow, dirt road into a wide, paved highway. It is a scene portending an era of transportation development that post-revolution land speculators and foreign investors hope will be bolstered by Mexican President Vicente Fox's Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP), a blueprint for area-wide industrial development of southern Mexico and Central America. (Institute of Current World Affairs)
4/9/02	Plan Puebla-Panama: Done Deal or Emerging Flashpoint? -- Even before his December 2000 inauguration as Mexico's president, Vicente Fox was touting a massive industrial development plan for the southern states of Mexico and all of Central America. (Institute of Current World Affairs)
3/4/02	The Solidarity Economy -- There exists different forms of how an economy conducts its development, and this depends on the concrete form of how a society, region, or group, combines certain factors or elements that permit them to achieve the objectives they seek. These factors vary according to the vision and the concept of what you determine as development. (DESMI)
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)
11/8/01	Gálvez offers to reject Plan Puebla Panamá if it commits outrages against ethnic groups -- The representative for the Development of Indigenous Communities, Xóchitl Gálvex Ruiz, vowed to firmly oppose the Plan Puebla Panamá (PPP) if the project, in order to promote the south east region of Mexico, results in persecution of the Indigenous communities of Oaxaca. (El Universal)
8/15/01	Geoeconomía y Geopolítica del Plan Puebla Panamá -- La crisis social y política del sureste de México, conectada al estallido de la guerra en Chiapas (y posteriormente en Guerrero y Oaxaca) y a la insurgencia de un movimiento de resistencia y reorganización popular, es la parte más corrosiva de los diversos factores que ponen término al monopolio político del PRI. (Memorias Foro Tapachula)
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)
5/30/01	Plan Puebla Panama: Part IV -- In the conversations that have taken place between Mexican president Vicente Fox and the American president George W. Bush, the Puebla Panama Plan (PPP) has been a topic of priority. (CIEPAC)
5/23/01	Plan Puebla Panama: Part III -- The official document of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) contains a chapter on Mexico that includes information about the south and southeastern region that will be affected by the plan. (CIEPAC)
5/16/01	Plan Puebla Panama: Part II -- In March of this year, the federal government made public the "Base Document" of the Plan Puebla-Panamá, which includes an extensive diagnostic of the region. The introduction of the "Mexico Chapter" emphasizes the importance of adapting the "system of governmental institutions" and "public policies" in order to "creatively make the most of development opportunities that globalization of the world economy brings, and minimize its negative effects." (CIEPAC)
3/7/01	Plan Puebla-Panama: Part I -- The EZLN's march to Mexico City to have the Congress of the Union recognize the Law of the Comission of Concord and Peace (COCOPA), an act that would constitutionally change the accords signed in 1996 between the federal government and the EZLN on indigenous rights and culture; the Zapatista's declaration that Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP) will not pass through indigenous lands; the behaviour of the Multilateral Bank and its investments such as the World Bank (WB) and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), not only in Chiapas, but in Latin America as it works to create infrastructure for business; all of these are intimately bound. (CIEPAC)
2001	Mesoamerica: Los Rios Projundos, Alternativas Plebeyas al Plan Puebla Panama -- Sur es el planeta profundo. Bautizado y acotado por un Norte expansivo y colonizador que de arranque definió el arriba y el abajo del mapamundi, Sur es un concepto geográfico pero también simbólico. Una alegoría que enlaza naturaleza pródiga con indigencia social, vegetación opulenta y lujuriosa con humanidad inerte, perezosa, incontinente, bárbara... Que asocia el sol canicular con el ánimo bullicioso, con la liberación de los impulsos reprimidos, con el lado femenino y desfajado, con la imaginación y el sueño, con el inconsciente, con la revolución, con la utopía. (Mesoamerica.com)
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)