The meeting took place in Mexico
During the meeting of the Executive Commission and the Inter-institutional Technical Group of the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP), held in Mexico City, the Colombian government offered to install three pilot plants for biofuel generation in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, as part of a cooperation plan with the Mesoamerican region.
The program will have an investment of around one million dollars, Colombian diplomatic sources indicated.
Representatives from all member countries, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Central American Integration System (SICA) participated in this meeting, according to a statement from the Colombian embassy in Mexico.
The initiative will be fully funded by the Colombian government and "seeks to strengthen regional capacities for fuel production with environmentally sustainable projects," the statement noted.
In this regard, the delegate of the Colombian Presidency for the PPP, Fabio Valencia, stated that Colombia opens its doors to all members of that organization of countries so that they can learn about his country's experience in biofuels.
According to Colombia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Fernando Arbeláez, who was also present at the meeting, his country's interest is to strengthen biofuel production in the region "as a strategy that will guarantee the well-being of our people."
The embassy stated that Mexico and Belize expressed their interest in installing biofuel plants with Colombian technology in their territories "as soon as possible".
Furthermore, those attending the meeting proposed the creation of a knowledge network around the production of biofuels led by Colombia, in which universities and research centers from all PPP members will participate.
In this regard, the Colombian delegation indicated that it will organize a technical forum on the production of this type of fuel in February of next year, in which representatives of Mesoamerican countries can visit crops and plants used to produce these energy sources.
Meanwhile, a group of Mexican congressmen will travel to Colombia in early November to analyze that country's experience with biofuels.
The PPP is a program that promotes integration from the southern states of Mexico to Colombia through projects in infrastructure, telecommunications, trade, tourism, the environment, and other areas of development.
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