The Mexican government is making a renewed push to exploit and destroy the land and people of Chiapas as the reborn Plan Puebla Panama (PPP, now renamed the “Mesoamerica Initiative”) pushes forward in Chiapas:

• Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel has announced plans for oil drilling in Chiapas, with private companies invited to invest as early as the coming year. The Zapatistas have been predicting this for a while, especially after the Mexican military invaded the oil-rich Zapatista territory of La Garrucha in June.

• Kessel has also announced plans to grow vast fields of an extremely poisonous plant (Jatropha curcus) and process it into biofuel!

• 55 new mining applications are pending for Chiapas (on top of mines already in operation) for metals including gold, silver, copper, barite, lead, titanium, iron, zinc, antimony and molybdenum. Many of the metals to be mined are essential for the oil industry (note again how interconnected the system is).

• Plans are proceeding for highways, bridges, airports and other transportation infrastructure in the region, to serve both the tourist and resource extraction industries.

Read the complete article and analysis from Narconews.