Webliography and Links on the PPP

LIST OF "OFFICIAL" WEBSITES in ENGLISH and SPANISH
Additional Online Articles
Maps

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PPP links in English:

Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America (ACERCA)
http://www.asej.org/ACERCA/plan_pueblo_panama.html

Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR)
http://www.summersault.com/~agj/clr/

International Rivers Network (IRN)
http://www.irn.org/programs/latamerica/index.asp?id=020816.information.html

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/mexico/ppp/

Grassroots International
http://www.grassrootsonline.org/GOL_mex220501.html

International Development Exchange (IDEX)
http://www.idex.org/issue.php?issue_id=8

Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN) -Chicago
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/plan_puebla_panama.html

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
http://www.nisgua.org/articles/ppp.htm

Social Justice Committee of Montreal
http://www.s-j-c.net/PPP.htm

Alternatives
http://www.alternatives.ca/

Bank Information Center (BIC)
http://www.bicusa.org/lac/PPP.htm

Interaction
http://www.interaction.org/cgi-in/texis/webinator/iasearch?query=Plan+Puebla+Panama&search=ia

Indy Media-Chiapas
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/

Mexican and Central American Organizations and Information in Spanish
Organizaciones de Mexico y Centroamerica en Espanol

Panama
Centro de Asistencia Legal Popular (CEALP)
Tel: +(507) 263 1970 or 263 1971
Email: cealp@sinfo.net

Caritas Panama
507-262-3777
http://www.caritaspanama.org/

Nicaragua
Centro de Estudios Internacionales
Tel: +(505) 278-5413
Email: lanuzam@ceinicaragua.org.ni
Web: http://www.ceinicaragua.org.ni/

Red Nacional de Consumidores
Tel: +(505 2) 663-982
Email:selenelm@hotmail.com
Web: http://nuevaradio.org/comsunica/
Nicaragua-based consumer rights organization. Played an important role in organizing the PPP forum held in Managua in July 2002

Foro Managua 2002
http://www.foromanagua.com.ni/

Mexico
Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (UCIZONI)
Tel: +(52 972) 722-16-46
Email: ucizoni@laneta.apc.org
Web: http://www.mesoamericaresiste.org/
Network of Mixe, Zapoteca, Zoque, Chinanteca, Barreña, Mixteca, and Mestiza communities in the isthmus region of Oaxaca. Leading player in the citizen's movement in resistance to the PPP. Extensive directory of groups working on the PPP at www.laneta.apc.org/ucizoni/primeras/segundas/directorio.html.

Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria (CIEPAC)
Tel: +52 (967) 674-5168
Email: ciepac@laneta.apc.org
Web: http://www.ciepac.org/ppp.htm
Chiapas-based nonprofit working extensively on the PPP. Website rich in PPP information.

Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)
Tel: +(52 55) 5355 1177
Email: rmalc@laneta.apc.org
Web: http://www.rmalc.org.mx/ppp.htm
Leading Mexican nonprofit working on trade, development, the environment, human rights, and related issues and engaged in PPP issues. Extensive PPP information on website.

Foro Tapachula 2001
http://www.ciepac.org/otras%20temas/memorias/

Indy Media-Chiapas
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/

Guatemala
Consejo de Investigaciones e Información en Desarrollo
Tel: +(502) 635-6825
Email: ciid@intelnet.net.gt
Web: http://usuarios.lycos.es/ciid/ciid.htm
Guatemala-based research and advocacy organization working on trade, human rights, the environment, and related issues, including the PPP.

Grupo Solidario de Acción y Propuesta
Email: ileanaval@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.unq.edu.ar/revista-theomai/numero5/artileanavalenzuela.htm

Trópico Verde
Tel: +(502) 339-4225
Email: mailto@tropicoverde.org
Web: http://www.tropicoverde.org/index.htm
Guatemala-based environmental organization working on PPP issues.

Foro Xelaju 2001
http://usuarios.lycos.es/xelaju/xela.htm

Costa Rica
ADELA
http://www.cosmovisiones.com/adela/harken.html

LIST OF "OFFICIAL" WEBSITES in ENGLISH and SPANISH (top)

Interamerican Development Bank, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
http://www.iadb.org/ppp/

Interamerican Bank of Integration, Banco Interamericano de Integracion,
http://www.bcie.org/bcie/eventos/ppp/index.htm

The Mexican Government Official Website, El gobierno Mexicano
http://ppp.presidencia.gob.mx/PPP/

United Nations: Economic Commision for L:atin America and the Caribbean, Comision Economica para America Latina
http://www.cepal.org/

General Secretary of Central American Integration, Secrataria General del Sistema de Integracion Centroamericano
http://www.sicanet.org.sv/

http://www.incae.ac.cr/ES/

Secretary of Central American Integration, Secrataria de Integracion Centroamericano
http://www.sieca.org.gt/

Federation of Municipalities of the Isthmus of Central America, Federacion de Municipios del Istmo Centroamericano
http://www.femica.org/

Additional Online Articles (top)

"Development in Mexico" | Americas Program, Oct. 2001
http://www.americaspolicy.org/reports/2001/bl82.html
"Farms vs. Factories" | Texas Observer, Feb. 1, 2002
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleFileName=020201_f3.htm

"Fox Strives to Spread Maquiladoras South" | borderlines UPDATER, Aug. 7, 2001
http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/updater/2001/aug7ppp.html#fox

"Last Harvest? Industrialization plan threatens Central America's Indigenous" | Resource Center of the Americas, May 1, 2002
http://www.americas.org/News/Features/200205_Puebla_Panama_Plan/20020501_index.htm

"Nicaraguan Transportation Corridor Developers Hitch Hopes to Plan Puebla-Panama | Americas Program, April 10, 2002
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0204transport.html

"Plan Puebla-Panama: Done Deal or Emerging Flashpoint?" | Americas Program, April 9, 2002
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0204puebla.html

"PPP Plays into Washington's Hand for Latin America" | borderlines UPDATER, Aug. 7, 2001
http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/updater/2001/aug7ppp.html#ppp

"The Mesoamerican Isthmus: Globalization, Ecology and Security" | ALAI
http://alainet.org/active/show_text.php3?key=1154

"Plan Puebla-Panama: Development or Devastation?" | The Other Side of Mexico, May-June 2001
http://www.equipopueblo.org.mx/oc73-cruickshak-en.htm

"Regional Leaders Gather in Merida to Advance PPP | Americas Program, July 24, 2002
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0207ppp.html

www.iadb.org/exr/PRENSA/2001/CP12901e.htm
Press release from the Interamerican Development Bank about a PPP-related loan in the Upper Lempa River Basin, in Central America. (English)

http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/updater/2001/aug7ppp.html
A special issue of Borderlines, the magazine of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (in New Mexico - www.us-mex.org) about the Plan Puebla Panama. (English)

www.ezln.org/san_andres/index.html
An article by Dr. Ana Esther Ceceña, Mexican economist and editor of the journal Chiapas, about the relationship between the Ley Indígena and the PPP: "El Dictamen del Senado, a favor del Plan Puebla Panamá y no de los derechos indígenas.

http://www.chiapasnews.ukgateway.net/news/010528.html
A brief, basic article from British journal The Ecologist, in June 2001 article about the PPP. (English)

http://www.rmalc.org.mx/tratados/tlcan/libro_impactos.htm
Article by Juan Carlos Beas Torres of UCIZONI can be downloaded here in Acrobat format.

http://barreda@laneta.apc.org/nuevaneta/Index3.shtml

http://chiapas.indymedia.org/

http://www.nodo50.org/pchiapas/ppp.htm

http://vsppp.8m.com

http://usuarios.lycos.es/xelaju/xela.htm

This site has information from the Foro Xelajú, held in Guatemala in November 2001.
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/maquilas/planpuebla.htm

PPP as it relates to Maquila workers, Sept. 2001. English.
http://www.us-mex.org/borderlines/updater/2001/aug7ppp.html#ppp
August 7th in Borderlines, Journal of the Inter-hemispheric Resource Center
by John Ross

Investigación Rural
http://www.geocities.com/investigaccion_rural/ppp.htm

MAPS (top)
http://www.laneta.apc.org/oaxaca/megaproyecto/mapaschicos/Mcuadro1/mapasc1.html

http://www.laneta.apc.org/oaxaca/megaproyecto/mapaschicos/inicioma/mapa01.html

http://www.laneta.apc.org/oaxaca/megaproyecto/mapaschicos/Mcuadro2/mapasc2.html

http://www.laneta.apc.org/oaxaca/megaproyecto/mapaschicos/Mcuadro3/Mapasc3.html

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-A Special thank you to Wendy Call who has written extensively on the Plan Puebla Panama for much of the above information.