Salvadoran here 🙋🏻♀️ I agree that the federal republic should come back, it's one of the reasons I favor Bukele is because he's very pro-reunion of Central America. But as you mentioned Costa Rica will be hesitant to join, but then again anything is possible, good video
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Yes gallo pinto is delicious, when I traveled throughout Central America I also realized that every country has their own version of pupusas. I went to masaya where I ate pupusas but they called them rellenas or rellena revueltas, it opened my eyes to how identical we are in culture and culinary cooking. Even nacatamales look very identical to some of the tamales I ate visiting family in El Salvador, cheers 🇸🇻
Im descended from one of the few nicaraguans who fought for morazan in the second Central American civil war, captain Patricio de Mayorga. As a proud Central American (Nicaraguan and Costa Rican), I take immense pride that im directly descended from one of the few nicaraguans who chose central american unity over separation 🙏🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮🇨🇷
Mexico is huge and the central power is in Mexico City. Regions in Mexico, USA,Colombia,Venezuela,Ecuador,Chile,Argentina,France,Italy,Spain,Russia,China have maintained regional cultures within the country .
I'd love the union of CA. We have almost the same culture, language, we even share the national symbols with el Salvador being Torogoz or Guardabarranco in Nicaragua. However, I dont think that's gonna happen in decades sadly.
Im Honduran and would love to see the reunification of Central America, I have Nicaraguan, Salvadorian and Guatemalan friends and we're all super similar enough that we might as well be 1 nationality under 1 nation. Costa Rica doesn't want it, the equivalent to this is like if 4 brothers planned a family reunion but their 5th brother refuses to join and keeps his distance from his other 4 siblings. In other words as much as i'd like Costa Rica to reunite with the rest of us I know that they're just not gonna 🤷🏻♀️
Four kept in a union, loosely (Nicaragua became president pro tempore last week) and four kept the flag design. One left the union and went to a US inspired flag design. It's true, the chances of reunification are low with CR. But then again, the problems that CR would bring to the rest, while it would be great to have the additional population, range, borders, etc. it feels unlikely that CR will be able to pull off the necessary quality of life and safety benefits that the other four expect.
The Eastern part of Guatemala has more culturally similar to El Salvador; than to the Mayan Highlands of its own country . I can see Guatemala's Jutiapa, Jalapa, Chiquimula, and Santa Rosa departments ( the Xinca departments) easly incorporating with El Salvador. These department are more similar ( Mestizo) to El Salvador; than to the Mayan Highlands .I can see these departments easily annexed to El Salvador and the Mayan Highlands forming their own autonomous region : Mayaland ;sort of like The Miskita and Cuna land in Panama .The Maya region can florish with small plot agriculture and tourism .
Guatemala can be split in 2 from Guatemala City east and from Guatemala City west . The Mayan highlands and the rest that is an Mestizo/Afro region ;similar to El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua . Even Honduras can be separated by south Honduras : Mestizo/ Indian and north Atlantic Honduras that is more Afro Caribbean centric .
I can tell you that Costa Rica will not be part of a potential Federal Republic of Central America. I can see C.R. and Panama getting together first... but as it pertains to the rest of Central America.. I believe that Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are very similar and could very well integrate.. a potential union with Belize is not that unreasonable. Those 5 nations would be a good base and leave the door open for C.R. and Panama in the future. A similar union as the E.U. to begin with ... and then work into a more Federal Union like in the U.S.A. or Mexico as things are worked out. Central America separated into small nations is a recipe for disaster for those nations and their people.
Given that the corruption and violence is from Costa Rica, it is Nicaragua that keeps the border solid. Costa Rica isn't dumb, they don't care about other peoples' governments they care about safety. Nicaragua keeps the borders tight to keep drugs and gangs out. Which is very successful, but makes it hard for CR to integrate. But there's never been the slightest interest in that so pointless to worry about.
The similarities of the individual states are clear, yet the differences are no greater than those of many states of the US. Today, and in today's world of uncertainty, the only reason for a Union, Confederation or the like is for economic reasons. The premise that diversity always (!) brings strength to nations is easily challenged by history. The Austro-Hungarian Empire (or even Yugoslavia, Pakistan, or perhaps Sudan) would probably have loved to chime in on this, but their diversity is exactly what killed them. The Spanish Empire and regional hegemony granted its colonies a common language, many shared cultural institutions as well as (even if imposed by force) a common religious base. Spanish legal systems, even a solid framework of bureaucratic corruption and nepotism, rules of ownership, laws on church, slavery and inheritance... all similar... yet, today, all slightly different in the former colonies. The annoying thing to advocates of federations, etc. is the undeniable human tendency to want to sub-divide by identity, be it linguistic, cultural, ethnic, or tribal. As soon as Bolivar liberated the lands that he liberated, Gran Colombia began breaking apart almost immediately. Economic cooperation would be a good or even great thing for the C4. Think of the potential regional improvements for rails and roads! Anything else of a non-economic nature would exacerbate regional problems. In the end everyone likes doing things their way, whether it is the best way or not, and we should respect that. Hope everyone has a great day!
It's actually considered a separate isthmus geographically. The Isthmus of Panama connects to the Isthmus of Central America. Western Panama feels like Central America and is attached to it, and living in Panama's west, they refer to the east as "Panama" and don't consider themselves to be in Panama. But by the time you are with the Panamanian population, it's very geographically different and culturally separate from Central America. It's hard because the divide between the two regions happens inside Panama, not at the border. But the part of Panama called Panama, and the part with the population and what people picture as Panama (PTY, Canal Zone, etc.) is south American in every sense, or at least physically distinct from Central America.
Populated Spanish colonial Nicaragua is actually VERY similar is size, shape and layout to El Salvador. If you look at old maps, they were like twin countries.
The trains and the fast ferry between Nicaragua and El Salvador;as not to have the long route through Honduras. Nicaragua to El Salvador direct by fast passenger, and cargo ferry .
That would be very cool. We have a ferry today on that route, but it is tiny and slow. We also need good transport to the ferry terminal. It's a difficult region to service.
They can create a kind of European Union :with no borders; domestic air flights ,one currency :the American dollar and the ability from citizens of one country to work freely within the other countries. Bukele already had signed with Giamatei of Guatemala that the borders between Guatemala and El Salvador would be eliminated and that flights between Guatemala,El Salvador and Honduras would be considered domestic flight. It is signed:done deal;why it has not been implemented and why Bukele does not pressure it to be followed;I do not know ?
I think a common currency is unlikely. The EU showed that that was a bad idea. All four CA4 countries use their own currencies today for a reason. If any thought being on the dollar was beneficial, they'd switch as that is trivial to do. Switching back is what is hard. Salvador doesn't want to be on the dollar, but is trapped as they lack a central bank to get them off of it. But all use of the US dollar is lessening across teh region. Not being removed, just a little less encouraged. There's officially no borders between the countries, just checkpoints. When I enter Nicaragua via Guatemala, I get no additional stamps. There are still borders with flights, it would be awesome if they dropped that for sure. The CA4 border agreements are normally all four countries as they are a single border zone. We've not heard anything about a new border agreement.
Here is the announcement you mention. What's odd, is it seems like El Salvador is the one with the border concerns. The outbound border to Guatemala by air requires additional security even though you have originated inside the border zone. It's extreme, even by US standards and runs totally counter the idea of considering it a domestic flight. El Salvador, as of a few months ago, considers it a much harder border than Guatemala does. www.reuters.com/article/world/guatemalan-president-offers-el-salvador-the-chance-to-build-a-port-in-guatemalan-idUSKBN1ZR07N/
@The1ByTheSea you are wrong, it is El Salvador that is behind in the custom union between Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, in Honduras and Guatemala their customs and arancels are integrated since 2018, waiting time are the border is 20 minutes for a truck, while Bukele and El Salvador is trying to catch up, the economy of Honduras grew 15% and the Guatemala grew 5% of their GDP just for for that, that's why Honduras surpassed the economy of el Salvador, there is a huge number of people from el Salvador living and working in Guatemala, so Santa Ana and Ahuachapan wants to join Guatemala they are welcome,
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Honduras and Guatemala have a custom deal, waiting time at the borders is 20 or 30 minutes, since all the paper work is done before, I will leave you few links about that, yes Guatemala offer El Salvador to give them the chance to built a terminal at Santo Tomas de Castilla port but people from el Salvador started saying that was going to be part of el Salvador which was not true, thats why is never going to happens, links of the custom union from Costa Rica TV th-cam.com/video/1AOYwZa-eKo/w-d-xo.html
Since El Salvador took the American dollar as its national and only currency.Thousands of Nicaraguans,Hondurans and Guatemalans are working in El Salvador;and bring the dollars to Nicaragua ,Honduras and Guatemala ;and exchange it to their countries' currencies . If all would have the American dollar as their national currency;this would not happen .
El Salvador has dual currencies, the dollar is not their only currency, just the one that the public prefers. Bringing dollars from El Salvador has no benefit to the other countries. Nicaraguans also work in Guatemala and bring quetzales to Nicaragua and exchange. The currency you earn in never matters, because you always convert to whatever is useful. Nicaragua uses the dollar same as El Salvador, it's one of two official currencies. Tons of Nicaraguans are paid, locally, in US dollars. But it's only a convenience. It has no monetary advantage.
@@The1ByTheSea COrrect, not for some time. Salvador moved to Bitcoin as an official currency instead. So they now lack a central bank and the "printing of their currency" is controlled by others.
As a Mexican I think Central America should've never separated from Mexico, if they stayed there would've been no civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua wouldn't have fallen to the communists, basically we would've been WAY more powerful together economically, militarily and politically. In addition we all share a common Mesoamerican culture and history and even share the same indigenous heritage like the Nahuas in Mexico, El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as the Mayans in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Imagine what could've been if they remained part of Mexico, just thought i'd add my 2 cents, interesting video nonetheless
Nicaragua only fell to the American communist dictator William Walker for a few years in the 1800s. "Not separating from Mexico" didn't protect California, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and other large swaths of Mexico. The idea that Mexico could have, and would have, protecting every region from American involvement has merit, but in practice failed to do so for about half of Mexico's total territory. But had that happen, do you think Central America could have made the difference and kept the cartels out of Central America? Or would safe places like Nicaragua and El Salvador be trapped "inside" with organized crime being unstoppable? There's certainly shared heritage and history. Nicaragua's name MEANS it is part of Mexico (this is as far as the Mexicans came) is the name of the country. Although the name is wrong because they actually went to Costa Rica, lol. But the point stands. But a lot of history would have changed. Yes, the exact events that were negative in the region would have been different. But everything would have been different.
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Salvadoran here 🙋🏻♀️ I agree that the federal republic should come back, it's one of the reasons I favor Bukele is because he's very pro-reunion of Central America. But as you mentioned Costa Rica will be hesitant to join, but then again anything is possible, good video
reunion would enable a better flow of pupusas south and gallo pinto north. jaja
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Yes gallo pinto is delicious, when I traveled throughout Central America I also realized that every country has their own version of pupusas. I went to masaya where I ate pupusas but they called them rellenas or rellena revueltas, it opened my eyes to how identical we are in culture and culinary cooking. Even nacatamales look very identical to some of the tamales I ate visiting family in El Salvador, cheers 🇸🇻
Im descended from one of the few nicaraguans who fought for morazan in the second Central American civil war, captain Patricio de Mayorga. As a proud Central American (Nicaraguan and Costa Rican), I take immense pride that im directly descended from one of the few nicaraguans who chose central american unity over separation 🙏🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮🇨🇷
Thank you Scott!🌠
Mexico is huge and the central power is in Mexico City. Regions in Mexico, USA,Colombia,Venezuela,Ecuador,Chile,Argentina,France,Italy,Spain,Russia,China have maintained regional cultures within the country .
I think you would want to avoid an EU-style central governing body. Free markets and free movement of people within the region are a great idea.
I'd love the union of CA. We have almost the same culture, language, we even share the national symbols with el Salvador being Torogoz or Guardabarranco in Nicaragua. However, I dont think that's gonna happen in decades sadly.
Im Honduran and would love to see the reunification of Central America, I have Nicaraguan, Salvadorian and Guatemalan friends and we're all super similar enough that we might as well be 1 nationality under 1 nation. Costa Rica doesn't want it, the equivalent to this is like if 4 brothers planned a family reunion but their 5th brother refuses to join and keeps his distance from his other 4 siblings. In other words as much as i'd like Costa Rica to reunite with the rest of us I know that they're just not gonna 🤷🏻♀️
Four kept in a union, loosely (Nicaragua became president pro tempore last week) and four kept the flag design. One left the union and went to a US inspired flag design. It's true, the chances of reunification are low with CR. But then again, the problems that CR would bring to the rest, while it would be great to have the additional population, range, borders, etc. it feels unlikely that CR will be able to pull off the necessary quality of life and safety benefits that the other four expect.
Scott, you are part of us centroamericans now.
You are right El Salvador is so small; that it is going to depend from Nicaragua's agricultural products
We get a ton of agricultural products from El Salvador, too. But more often processed products.
The Eastern part of Guatemala has more culturally similar to El Salvador; than to the Mayan Highlands of its own country . I can see Guatemala's Jutiapa, Jalapa, Chiquimula, and Santa Rosa departments ( the Xinca departments) easly incorporating with El Salvador. These department are more similar ( Mestizo) to El Salvador; than to the Mayan Highlands .I can see these departments easily annexed to El Salvador and the Mayan Highlands forming their own autonomous region : Mayaland ;sort of like The Miskita and Cuna land in Panama .The Maya region can florish with small plot agriculture and tourism .
Interesting that the east, which is so far away, is more like Savaldor, so far west.
THe part of Nicaragua that I live in is very similar culturally and linguistically to southern Salvador. It's the Nawat zone.
Guatemala can be split in 2 from Guatemala City east and from Guatemala City west . The Mayan highlands and the rest that is an Mestizo/Afro region ;similar to El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua . Even Honduras can be separated by south Honduras : Mestizo/ Indian and north Atlantic Honduras that is more Afro Caribbean centric .
I can tell you that Costa Rica will not be part of a potential Federal Republic of Central America. I can see C.R. and Panama getting together first... but as it pertains to the rest of Central America.. I believe that Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are very similar and could very well integrate.. a potential union with Belize is not that unreasonable. Those 5 nations would be a good base and leave the door open for C.R. and Panama in the future. A similar union as the E.U. to begin with ... and then work into a more Federal Union like in the U.S.A. or Mexico as things are worked out. Central America separated into small nations is a recipe for disaster for those nations and their people.
Agree
It would make sense if these central American countries unite and become a one country. The problem is if US would allow that?
they used to be. the US wouldn't have TOO much pull
what is a re-public ??
Did I say something oddly or are you asking what a republican government is?
As long as Ortega is in Nicaragua;Costa Rica would not want open borders with Nicaragua;but as a new president comes in ,it could happen .
Given that the corruption and violence is from Costa Rica, it is Nicaragua that keeps the border solid. Costa Rica isn't dumb, they don't care about other peoples' governments they care about safety. Nicaragua keeps the borders tight to keep drugs and gangs out. Which is very successful, but makes it hard for CR to integrate. But there's never been the slightest interest in that so pointless to worry about.
I´m Nicaraguan and the crime rate is higher in the other countries, if that did happen there might be an increase in crime here.
The similarities of the individual states are clear, yet the differences are no greater than those of many states of the US. Today, and in today's world of uncertainty, the only reason for a Union, Confederation or the like is for economic reasons. The premise that diversity always (!) brings strength to nations is easily challenged by history. The Austro-Hungarian Empire (or even Yugoslavia, Pakistan, or perhaps Sudan) would probably have loved to chime in on this, but their diversity is exactly what killed them. The Spanish Empire and regional hegemony granted its colonies a common language, many shared cultural institutions as well as (even if imposed by force) a common religious base. Spanish legal systems, even a solid framework of bureaucratic corruption and nepotism, rules of ownership, laws on church, slavery and inheritance... all similar... yet, today, all slightly different in the former colonies. The annoying thing to advocates of federations, etc. is the undeniable human tendency to want to sub-divide by identity, be it linguistic, cultural, ethnic, or tribal. As soon as Bolivar liberated the lands that he liberated, Gran Colombia began breaking apart almost immediately. Economic cooperation would be a good or even great thing for the C4. Think of the potential regional improvements for rails and roads! Anything else of a non-economic nature would exacerbate regional problems. In the end everyone likes doing things their way, whether it is the best way or not, and we should respect that. Hope everyone has a great day!
Traditionally Panama was part of Colombia;part of New Granada ;but geografically Panama is part of Central America;hence part of the region .
It's actually considered a separate isthmus geographically. The Isthmus of Panama connects to the Isthmus of Central America. Western Panama feels like Central America and is attached to it, and living in Panama's west, they refer to the east as "Panama" and don't consider themselves to be in Panama. But by the time you are with the Panamanian population, it's very geographically different and culturally separate from Central America. It's hard because the divide between the two regions happens inside Panama, not at the border. But the part of Panama called Panama, and the part with the population and what people picture as Panama (PTY, Canal Zone, etc.) is south American in every sense, or at least physically distinct from Central America.
Nicaragua has 2 zones: Pacific and Atlantic : the Atlantic was a separate kingdom : the Miskito kingdom .
It also had a different colonial history... England rather than Spain.
Populated Spanish colonial Nicaragua is actually VERY similar is size, shape and layout to El Salvador. If you look at old maps, they were like twin countries.
The trains and the fast ferry between Nicaragua and El Salvador;as not to have the long route through Honduras. Nicaragua to El Salvador direct by fast passenger, and cargo ferry .
That would be very cool. We have a ferry today on that route, but it is tiny and slow. We also need good transport to the ferry terminal. It's a difficult region to service.
They can create a kind of European Union :with no borders; domestic air flights ,one currency :the American dollar and the ability from citizens of one country to work freely within the other countries. Bukele already had signed with Giamatei of Guatemala that the borders between Guatemala and El Salvador would be eliminated and that flights between Guatemala,El Salvador and Honduras would be considered domestic flight. It is signed:done deal;why it has not been implemented and why Bukele does not pressure it to be followed;I do not know ?
I think a common currency is unlikely. The EU showed that that was a bad idea. All four CA4 countries use their own currencies today for a reason. If any thought being on the dollar was beneficial, they'd switch as that is trivial to do. Switching back is what is hard. Salvador doesn't want to be on the dollar, but is trapped as they lack a central bank to get them off of it. But all use of the US dollar is lessening across teh region. Not being removed, just a little less encouraged.
There's officially no borders between the countries, just checkpoints. When I enter Nicaragua via Guatemala, I get no additional stamps. There are still borders with flights, it would be awesome if they dropped that for sure.
The CA4 border agreements are normally all four countries as they are a single border zone. We've not heard anything about a new border agreement.
Here is the announcement you mention. What's odd, is it seems like El Salvador is the one with the border concerns. The outbound border to Guatemala by air requires additional security even though you have originated inside the border zone. It's extreme, even by US standards and runs totally counter the idea of considering it a domestic flight. El Salvador, as of a few months ago, considers it a much harder border than Guatemala does.
www.reuters.com/article/world/guatemalan-president-offers-el-salvador-the-chance-to-build-a-port-in-guatemalan-idUSKBN1ZR07N/
@The1ByTheSea you are wrong, it is El Salvador that is behind in the custom union between Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, in Honduras and Guatemala their customs and arancels are integrated since 2018, waiting time are the border is 20 minutes for a truck, while Bukele and El Salvador is trying to catch up, the economy of Honduras grew 15% and the Guatemala grew 5% of their GDP just for for that, that's why Honduras surpassed the economy of el Salvador, there is a huge number of people from el Salvador living and working in Guatemala, so Santa Ana and Ahuachapan wants to join Guatemala they are welcome,
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog Honduras and Guatemala have a custom deal, waiting time at the borders is 20 or 30 minutes, since all the paper work is done before, I will leave you few links about that, yes Guatemala offer El Salvador to give them the chance to built a terminal at Santo Tomas de Castilla port but people from el Salvador started saying that was going to be part of el Salvador which was not true, thats why is never going to happens,
links of the custom union from Costa Rica TV th-cam.com/video/1AOYwZa-eKo/w-d-xo.html
yes, including Belize and Panama . and become part of Mexico .
Except for Panama, it all was Mexico in the past. Should include Texas, too.
Since El Salvador took the American dollar as its national and only currency.Thousands of Nicaraguans,Hondurans and Guatemalans are working in El Salvador;and bring the dollars to Nicaragua ,Honduras and Guatemala ;and exchange it to their countries' currencies . If all would have the American dollar as their national currency;this would not happen .
El Salvador has dual currencies, the dollar is not their only currency, just the one that the public prefers. Bringing dollars from El Salvador has no benefit to the other countries. Nicaraguans also work in Guatemala and bring quetzales to Nicaragua and exchange. The currency you earn in never matters, because you always convert to whatever is useful.
Nicaragua uses the dollar same as El Salvador, it's one of two official currencies. Tons of Nicaraguans are paid, locally, in US dollars. But it's only a convenience. It has no monetary advantage.
@@ScottAlanMillerVlog well,yeah dollar and bitcoin . The Salvadoran colon is no longer produced or used as currency .
@@The1ByTheSea COrrect, not for some time. Salvador moved to Bitcoin as an official currency instead. So they now lack a central bank and the "printing of their currency" is controlled by others.
there are more Salvadorans living and working in Guatemala than Guatemalans living in el Salvador, in Guatemala most people don't take dollars,
Lots of Salvadorians working in Nicaragua, too. But Nicaragua does take the dollar and has for a long time.
You just want a train to Guatemala city 😂😂.
Me too!
It's so true!!!!
Sounds like the FCAS didn’t want Guatemala City being Mayan 2.0
As a Mexican I think Central America should've never separated from Mexico, if they stayed there would've been no civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua wouldn't have fallen to the communists, basically we would've been WAY more powerful together economically, militarily and politically. In addition we all share a common Mesoamerican culture and history and even share the same indigenous heritage like the Nahuas in Mexico, El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as the Mayans in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Imagine what could've been if they remained part of Mexico, just thought i'd add my 2 cents, interesting video nonetheless
Nicaragua only fell to the American communist dictator William Walker for a few years in the 1800s. "Not separating from Mexico" didn't protect California, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and other large swaths of Mexico. The idea that Mexico could have, and would have, protecting every region from American involvement has merit, but in practice failed to do so for about half of Mexico's total territory.
But had that happen, do you think Central America could have made the difference and kept the cartels out of Central America? Or would safe places like Nicaragua and El Salvador be trapped "inside" with organized crime being unstoppable?
There's certainly shared heritage and history. Nicaragua's name MEANS it is part of Mexico (this is as far as the Mexicans came) is the name of the country. Although the name is wrong because they actually went to Costa Rica, lol. But the point stands.
But a lot of history would have changed. Yes, the exact events that were negative in the region would have been different. But everything would have been different.
No, Central America should reunify, just not with Mexico