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Activists Meet In Guatemala To Oppose Neo-Liberalist Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) |
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by Global Indymedia Feature Desk
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02 Dec 2001
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Forum and protests in Guatemala brings together activists against the neoliberal free trade Plan Puebla Panama |
 Forum and protests in Guatemala brings together activists against the neoliberal free trade Plan Puebla Panama |
Activists from across the Americas converged in Xela, Guatemala to launch a campaign against the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP). The Plan which is being pushed by Mexican President Vincete Fox would create an integrated neoliberal economic zone from the Yucatan to Panama.
The plan is a "development" project proposal that calls for "regional integration" mirroring the same language and logic used to implement NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and now pushing the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). The PPP calls for the creation of industrial corridors, highways, high speed rails that will run north-south and east-west from Puebla, Mexico to Panama. Participants contest the PPP will displace enormous populations of indigenous peoples in the region, and accelerate the exploitation of labor and resources in the region.
Over 800 people from 262 different organizations participated in the forum and protests including hundreds of indigenous representatives, campesino organizers, grassroots activists, journalists and internationals in solidarity marched through the streets of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, marking the closing of the Second Forum, Xelaj Frente a la Globalización, El Pueblo Es Primero (Confronting Globalization, the People First.)
For more extensive coverage in english and spanish go to Indymedia Chiapas and the Foro Xelaju:
http://members.es.tripod.de/xelaju/xela.htm |
See also:
http://chiapas.indymedia.org
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