The Puebla-Panama Plan (Spanish: Plan Puebla Panamá, acronym PPP also known as Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project, or Project Mesoamerica) is a multi-billion dollar development plan formally initiated in 2001, which is intended to "promote the regional integration and development" of the nine southern states of Mexico (Puebla, Guerrero, Veracruz and points south) with all of Central America and Colombia. The initiative was championed by the then president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, and agreed to by the governments of the respective participating nations.
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