The meetings between Vicente Fox, Andr s Pastrana, and Hugo Chavez lasted two days, and also resulted in an agreement to solicit funds from the Inter-American Development Bank in order to promote regional integration of energy policy between the three nations. Mexican president Fox took the opportunity to plug his proposed Puebla to Panama development initiative, which he said was just one step on the way to a hemispheric free trade zone, which the three leaders said they hoped would become reality by the year 2005. Land invasions are often carried out by campesino or indigenous groups dissatisfied with the slow process of land reform. Milenio, La Jornada, El Universal, Proceso, Reforma. This report is a product of the Mexico Solidarity Network.
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