Ra Ximhai (Jan 2011)

WATER, DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT IN THE PLAN PUEBLA PANAMA

  • Julia Isabel Martínez Fuentes,
  • Eduardo Andrés Sandoval Forero

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 133 – 151

Abstract

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This article discusses the negative factors of development in the region where was placed the precedent Puebla Panama Plan (PPP), in particular issues around the geostrategic factor of water, as an important part of the current Project of Integration and Development of Mesoamerica in connection with the Sistema de Interconexión Eléctrica de los Países de América Central (SIEPAC), hydroelectric connection from Central America to Colombia. Currently, the enterprise viability catches tensions between the local and global wills, in the context of the appropriation of natural - resources and the resistance of communities opposite to adverse effects that result of the modification of the environment, in addition to the regional and local dynamics not served in the PPP and in the current PIDM.

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