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At the end of World War II, interest in integrating the Central American governments began.On 14 October 1951 (33 years after the CACJ was dissolved) the governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua signed a treaty creating the Organization of Central American States (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos, or ODECA) to promote regional cooperation and unity.
The PARLACEN origins date back to the Contadora Group, a project of the 1980s that sought to help resolve the civil wars in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.Although the Contadora group was disbanded in 1986, the idea of a greater Central American integration remained, giving rise to the Esquipulas II Agreement, which among other things, created the Central American Parliament.
Hugo Chávez, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Rafael Correa were among the other prominent left-wing leaders who praised the creation of CELAC. [14] In July 2010, CELAC selected President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez and President of Chile Sebastián Piñera , as co-chairs of the forum to draft statutes for the organization.
By the 1930s the United Fruit Company owned 14,000 square kilometres (3.5 million acres) of land in Central America and the Caribbean and was the single largest land owner in Guatemala. Such holdings gave it great power over the governments of small countries.
Military in Central America by country (8 C) B. Government of Belize (13 C, 23 P) C. Government of Costa Rica (11 C, 14 P) E. Government of El Salvador (11 C, 26 P) G.
Central America is a central geographic region of the Americas and is geographically part of the continent of North America. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, formerly the Andean Development Corporation (or Corporación Andina de Fomento), is a Caracas based development bank whose mission is to promote sustainable development and regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, through the financing of projects of the public and private sectors, the provision of technical cooperation ...
The Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) is a term used in the United States to refer collectively to the three Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The term is used with respect to the countries' economic integration , [ 1 ] and their shared challenges, including widespread poverty, violence, and ...