Northern Triangle of Central America

Northern Triangle of Central America: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
The Northern Triangle of Central America is a region of Central America comprising three countries, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. These counties share a border tripoint at Trifinio biosphere reserve, and also aspects of classical cultures, history, society and politics.

The Northern Triangle of Central America refers to the three Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, especially in regard to their economic integration.[1] They have signed trade agreements with Colombia,[2][3] the United States and Mexico. The agreement with Mexico began in 2001, later involved the Mesoamerica Project, and expanded to Costa Rica and Nicaragua in 2011.

Within these countries there has been strong resistance, not so much to integration among themselves, but as it relates to negotiation policy outside the region, especially from groups like Guatemalan tenant farmers of the Petén region, the Honduran business class, etc., who consider these associations to be disadvantageous.

This region is currently considered one of the deadliest in the world, with a rate of violent deaths higher than that of some war zones. According to the United Nations, in 2011 there were 39 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Guatemala, 69 in El Salvador and 92 in Honduras.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cali, Casa Editorial El País. "Centroamérica, un triángulo de miedo y muerte". elpais.com.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  2. ↑ "Tratado de Libre Comercio entre la República de Colombia y las Repúblicas de el Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras". www.tlc.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  3. ↑ República, Presidencia de la. "Colombia y el Triángulo del Norte - Comercio, Inversión y seguridad". Presidencia de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  4. ↑ "Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment" (PDF). United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
  5. ↑ "Centroamérica se desangra por aumento de la violencia". Prensa Libre. Retrieved 2018-06-25.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.