What is Plan Puebla Panama?
First introduced by President Vicente Fox of Mexico in 2001 and later joined by all Central American Presidents, the PPP is a $10 billion, 10 to 25 year regional integration project to create and interconnect transportation routes, industrial corridors and a variety of infrastructure projects throughout Mesoamerica (Southern Mexico and Central America), and firmly root the global “free trade” agenda in the region. Fox promised the PPP’s industrial corridors and transportation routes would bring the NAFTA model to a “backward south,” and now the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the PPP are combining forces to do just that. Multilateral banks, private industry, and the Central American public are providing the capital, loans and resources to fund this controversial megaproject. The primary objective of the PPP is to consolidate what is, in fact, a highly contested neoliberal “vision of development” in Mesoamerica, which inc
