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Article Excerpt
Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP), the scheme to integrate Meso and Central America, largely remains just that--a plan, a scheme. Little if anything has actually been built, installed, or initiated since the idea, usually if arguably attributed to Mexico's President Vicente Fox, first became the subject of debate and conjecture in the region.
In an environment of information scarcity, arguments have arisen regarding the premises of the plan. It is frequently framed as an integrated effort to relieve poverty, but it has been the poor, the indigenous, and the marginalized who have repeatedly asked just how this integration will help them.
Recent developments in Panama, however, indicate that foreign investors have begun to answer that question for themselves (see NotiCen, 2002-07-11). On May 27, the Japanese government made known its interest in getting involved in technological and energy-related initiatives associated with PPP.
"We are in the stage of study to identify possible modalities of cooperation in the areas of information technology and geothermic energy," Ken Shimanouchi, Latin America director of Japan's Foreign Affairs Ministry, told the press....
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