Central American common market

Countries of the Mercado Común Centroamericano

On December 13, 1960 , representatives of four Central American countries signed the agreement to found the Mercado Común Centroamericano ( MCCA = Common Central American Market) in Managua . The ODECA member states Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras and Nicaragua were founding members . The fifth ODECA member state, Costa Rica , was added in 1963. After the football war of 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras, the agreement lost its practical importance. Only after the creation of the Central American Integration System in 1991 was it reactivated in 1993 with the Guatemala Protocol .

Web links

• Tratado General de Integración Económica Centroamericano (text of the agreement of December 13, 1960; PDF, 90 kB - English version of the document ( Memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); PDF, 79 kB)
  • Protocolo al Tratado General de Integración Económica Centroamericano (text of the Guatemala Protocol of October 29, 1993; PDF, 120 kB)
• Mercado común centroamericano (MCCA) by Andrés Fernando Ruiz (Spanish)