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The leaders of the Central American countries have agreed to create a single currency. The leaders, who commissioned the preparation of the single currency project to their ministers of finance, signed the statement at the end of their 33rd Summit of the Central American Integration System in San Pedro Sula, Honduras on 6 December 2008.
The presidents of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, and representatives from Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, and Belize also agreed on a 41-point economic blueprint to help the region weather the current global financial storm. Attending the summit, in addition to the Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, the presidents Alvaro Colom (Guatemala), Elias Antonio Saca (El Salvador) and Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua); also, Marco Vinicio Ruiz (Minister for Foreign Trade of Costa Rica), Gaspar Vega (vice minister of Belize), Samuel Lewis Navarro (vice president and foreign minister of Panama) and Rafael Albuquerque (vice president of the Dominican Republic). Click here for more information
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