Why Isn't Central America One Country? 

The department of El Petén in Guatemala could also be Mexican, but the Mexican government in those years rejected the proposal for that territory for reasons that I don't remember and had to stay with Guatemala since they could not progress on their own since they did not have a maritime coast. Honestly, Mexico would look more attractive on the map, in addition to probably taking better advantage of the resources of that territory that unfortunately Guatemala has not been able to rescue.

Chiapas has had history of ceding from Mexico multiple times before to become independent. Mexico has had wars against Chiapas every century it seems.

@@Trancymind honestly Chiapas is only like that because of the indigenous population and if the Chiapan population were to be mestizo and white it would probably be safer

As it should be 😊

​@@ghfero29thank god, no one wants cerotes

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When's the next video?

I haven’t even started watching this, but I got excited, because almost no one talks about this topic, at least in English channels

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Honduras didn't have a civil war during the cold war

​@patagonianpaintResources Factor didn't curse them since they don't really have one

In the early twentieth century, Costa Rica abolished their army and created a constitution that put peace first before anything. A group of university students even successfully sued the government after their declared support of Bush’s invasion of Iraq because it went against the constitution.

Nothing to fight over and noone to fight

​@@d_all_in and now they win with ecotourism.

Nothing short of either Space Colonization or Catholic Church paying TRILLIONS in Reparations or Time-Travel will save Latin America

​@@ems4884considering our nations' histories with dictatorships, foreign interference, crime, and corruption, it's a miracle our governments even pretend to be democratic. Every country has its issues, and while we have common challenges and goals, there is no guarantee that "unity" won't just mean a larger sized dictatorship, oligarchy, or narcostate. And this doesn't even touch the subject of land distribution and disparities of power between the different nations. Put bluntly, everyone would love to get together, but no one would agree on a leader.

El Salvador on top 🔝🇸🇻🇸🇻

@@ems4884 Latin America has a lot of potential, but none of them get along. Everyone thinks they're better than one another. I'm surprised that Mexico has remained in one piece.

@@ems4884I feel like Costa Rica and Costa Ricans in general are not interested on joining as a Central American Nation. Nicaragua is anti democratic so there goes another nation out of the picture. Guatemala is very corrupted and with a poor infrastructure and school as well. Belize is the most alien country of all Central America due to a different culture as a former british colony. Honduras has so many issues right now that it is leaning strongly to China just like Nicaragua. El Salvador is doing their own thing in their own way in a more modernized mindset on how to govern itself in order to prosper without destroying the environment of their country.

The moment I heard that I was like “Oh my god” 😆

Whom and when did France attack?

Colombia is a bigger than any European country but only Russia

I just realized it aswell,God damn some countries are alot bigger than the map would have you believe,though the upside is that not all of Colombia is hospitable land,they have alot of desert and very mountainous territory which isnt all that useful. 1000 km of steppe or forest is better than 100 000 km of desert.

Countries in the new world are huge and we don't even notice since they are: 1: Far away from european and asian countries so you can't dimension them properly 2: Close to Canada, America, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, which makes them seem a lot smaller. New Zealand has this same perception hole, it's much bigger than people generally eyeball it to be.

As a Colombian i can confirm. Our country is huge but when you consider our geography there are big caveats like... The Andes cuts our country in half but still manages to cover a big part of our territory. Considering major populated cities developed in the center of the countrty between the mountains it made road connection to the coast and neighbouring countries harder and in the case of Panama impossible. The southeast of the country is basically just rainforest with no major urban areas and most towns being so disconnected the only way to get to them is by plane or maybe using some river. Fun fact tho, given our mountain terrain, Colombia produced the first latino-american to win the Tour de France and the Giro d'Itali.

people often overlook the fact that Colombia is the second most populous nation in south america, and the second most populous spanish speaking nation in the world

The problem is that Costa Rica has had some questionable germanic migration around 1945, which they like to boast about.

@@glasseyes5844 Really, I'm costarican and didn't know that😒.

We did got a lot of German migrations but that is just a racist statement. As a fellow centroamerican mentioned, Guatemala got even more Germans. The difference between Costa Rica and Central America is that we had a socialist government in the 1949 that wasn’t taken down by the US. The rest of CA also tried and they got a fascist dictatorship by the US. That’s the main difference

But imagine what could happen if they got past that fact and unified? Yes things won’t be easy in the beginning, but you have to go through the struggle to get to the brighter side.

@@XochitlHernandezTX we are talking about percentages bro, Guatemala is a 16 million country and Costa Rica just 5 million, and is second after Guatemala and first in percentages, but yeah in any case we had more jewish migration because we are the second in latinamerica after Argentina

Im also Salvadoreño or Salvadoran

If Nicaragua is a dictatorship, I don't even wanna know what the rest of Centroamérica is. I do agree that it should unify or at least those countries should work more together

The criminal carckdown in El Salvador came at the expense of democracy, individual freedoms and the Institutions of the State. That's something a country like Costa Rica will never accept.

El Salvador only upped its safety by throwing human rights to the wayside in the process. Not sure others would be down to do the same.

​@@pedrosampaio7349The rest are republics. Nicaragua is a dictatorship with left leanings tendencies.

​@@bmac4It isn't like the goverment wants that to be the new normal or the new status quo. They want to sentence the 65000+ that were arrested and after they have a sentence end the suspension of Constitutional rights. The only reaao they haven't ended the State of exception is because if they ended the suspension of Constitutional rights right now they would have to free 90% of the people that were arrested, because they have been in prision longer that the amount of time the Constitution authorises without a State of exception. They recently approved collectives cases for the crimes of being a terrorist and ilicit organizatión to be able to increase the speed at wich the court system gives sentence to this people, because at the old speed they would had to wait for 2 more years to be able to end the State of exceptión.

Yugoslavia also seemed like a good idea on paper... just the 1000's of years of history made unification a tad ugly. Central America has a lot less history to worry about.

No, its not yugoslavia at all. Bad comparison. All central americans speak the same language and are christians. Yugoslavia on the other hand has islam, and christians, and other languages.

Nah bro, it really is similar you just wanna cry about it for some reason. 1st: pretty much the same language. 2nd:a couple of rich countries, a populated one and an unstable one. 3rd: Slight differences among them. Sure, I agree it's definitely easier to unify Central America thn Yugoslavia, but the comparison makes sense.

No. Unlike Yugoslavia, we are all literally the exact same genetically. We speak with identical accents. I think a Nicaraguan peasant and a Nicaraguan bus driver are more different from each other than a Salvadorian bus driver and a Nicaraguan bus driver. That's to say, we are one people, separated into 5 countries for the sake of keeping us poor and desperate

@@planescapedWhat Yugoslavia went through is nothing compared to what Central America went through. Religion wasn't a big issue nor race ideology in Central America. Also central americans as people get along pretty well like good neighbors.

This is such a silly metaphor 💀 but I like it

El Salvador is like a honey badger, it is the smallest but also the courageous one who loves to rebel against bigger opponents. Costa Rica is the sloth, who doesn't like to say anything nor fight. Mexico is a big animal that barks but runs away if they get hit once anywhere on their body. Panama is an adoptive animal from a different foreign place. Guatemala is an animal follower like a dog who is less intelligent than a typical cat. Honduras is like a stray cat that has a lot of fleas and ticks inside their ears, very chaotic and unstable. USA is the zookeeper.

@@Trancymindwe get it you’re a cerote 🤣

@@TrancymindLol please mexico backing down, cmon I already know you’re Central American.

@@christianrivera6296Yup, Mexico barks and are experts at losing battles and territory. Facts. The problem with mexicans you guys have big egoes and you sir is no exception.

make sure to be prepared to remove bullets from yourself, and if you can, save some ransom money.

lmao just kidding, enjoy your trip!

President Bukele jailed all the criminals. It’s extremely safe now

@@mapache-ehcapam fr. there is a reason most visiting the country are visiting family or the tourist safe areas

@@pptenshi3900most tourists of every country stay in tourist areas lol

Well the white color represents the land, and the blue reperesents the two oceans, while the army shield has 5 volcanos that represents the five provinces, and is also a reference of the many volcanos in the region.

Los altos became a state, it qas granted statehood while the Federal Republic existed.

@@lucario2188 Yes, it became a state but its territory was mainly in todays Guatemala. Territories like the north (Peten) were also kinda disputed, as it was the full length of Belize (thats why there is still a conflict today). Also, there was the Miskito kingdom as well. All the borders at that time were quite volatile.

Check out stuff on the banana wars if you want to know what happened next.

Heck no bukele is the best thing central america has

Same in Honduras, we only celebrate independence from Spain, although independence from the mexican empire gets mentioned in school. And i agree on central america coming together, just not under bukele

@@marioesteli9510 well screw y'all, we will be independent But bukele will stay

@@corymiller536 na q horror, costa rica es un país decente, en el salvador tuvieron q llegar a ese extremo por q son incivilizados. no soy de costa rica

@@Androbott me vale verga costa rica, ahora esta mas seguro el salvador que costa pobre , muchos crimenes en costa pobre

I've seen you so much in comment sections lol

*Guatemala did the right thing They wanted to weaken Guatemala by trying to split the country in 2. Both the salvadorans and hondurans can't be trusted. Bukele wants to try again. The f#cker even wanted us to secede our Caribbean coast to them.... our neighbors are not our brothers. They are parasites waiting for us to fall asleep in order to move in.*

Same here

you speak as if the US state department and the CIA would allow it.. They would sabotage the hell out of it

Same as a Honduran, American

ahora dilo en español

It’s never gonna happen. The only way that this could happen is cleaning Nicaragua of any Ortega corruption and Honduran corruption and crime. Costa Rica and Panamá would not associate with the rest of the countries and leave all the years they’ve had peace.

That land was never British land it was local or natives land they came to stole it a stolen item never will be yours totally.

Most of them are bigger than any average central european country, it's crazy tbh.

El Salvador is about the same size as the state of Massachusetts. Very small country.

@@Trancymind but you would never say that any average European country is a “very small country”, my point is people think third world countries are tiny but when it comes to first world countries they think they are huge, and the only huge first world countries are the US, Canada, Australia and maybe Denmark because of Greenland. That’s it.

@@geografisica Vatican City, Monaco, Luxembourg, Lietchtstein, Faroe Islands are not small countries, they are midget countries. El Salvador is the Tom thumb of the americas. Fact!! Ask ANY salvadoran person and they will say 'El Salvador es el pulgarcito'. What I love about the salvadorans is that they are honest and humble.

@@Trancymind A Real size earth globe is free on Google Earth… ;)

But you aren't?

🖕🏽🖕🏽Guatemala 🇬🇹 💩💩

@@CrazySe7enDon’t mind him paisano, he’s one of those changos aplastados from Belize. Viva Guate 🇬🇹🇬🇹🇬🇹

Trust me you better not want that. EU is basically USSR 2.0 (sort of). I see foundation of Switzerland as better example, it was mostly voluntry loose confederation until half of 19th century and still is one of the most decentralized countries. Also the EU is one of the reasons freedom of swiss people is descreasing over the time.

Most Central Americans don't want to be part of Guatemala due to the fact Guatemala has had a reputation throughout its history as being Mexicos pet.

You don’t want that Guatemala is peaceful and beautiful. All the Hondurans would ruin it. 95% of them are garbage gangsters and chriminals

No. European Union is a union between very different countries with their own languages and cultures and takes up almost an entire continent. Different scale. Central America has to be a federation like Mexico or the United States. Central Americans are one and the same.

@@katjerouacBut differently politically which is why it split many times before and still is today. Nicaragua is like a communist country while Honduras is becoming more as well.

Remove the "Dios" though. We need a secular state.

​@@wave1090Christianity is an important part of our history. We can be a secular state and recognize the important role Christianity has plays in most of our citizenry's lives.

@@abnertrinidadmartinez4789recognize it, but keep it in history only. Religion is archaic.

​@@ToutCQJMboorrringgg

El Salvador was the only country/province in Central America that didn't want to be part of the Mexican Empire and fought the invading guatemalan (mexican allies) for their independence and pulled an upset and defeated the guatemalan troops. When the mexicans started their invasion against El Salvador, El Salvador wanted to be part of USA as a state instead. The exhausted salvadoran troops fought for their independence against the Mexican empire and were defeated. Mexican troops controlled El Salvador for only 18 months and they eventually left never to control El Salvador ever again.

It is crazy. Have you met Ortega in Nicaragua? Bukele has nothing on him 😅

And remember, El Salvador was the only country that stayed after the independence of the Federal Republic of Central America. There was no country left only El Salvador

I have just been to hungary serbia and bosnia but austria and UK are my trip plans

But then again what isn’t 😂

Salvadoran here. Dunno if afraid is really the word. I agree with you that he is in fact propping up an, as of this moment, publically approved dictatorship (which, while I like his tough on crime stance, I am not in favor of unchecked executive power). However, I feel that many in the region, including Guatemala, have been alarmingly supportive of these policies. I don't think Guatemala would like to join a union for much of the same reasons El Salvador and Honduras would: we are each too proud of our own culture's to give up individual sovereignty and we are rightfully skeptical of our politicians enough as it is without needing to bring new ones into the mix. And even if we weren't, trying to have any of us agree on a leader would be like pulling teeth. That said, I have alot of love and respect for our cultural siblings and wish you all the best. Viva Guatemala.

@@JanusXAlvarenga I truly appreciate the respectfulness of your opposing point of view. It’s such a joy to have the opportunity to participate in these open discussions with people like you.

@@t.miranda176 Thanks, man. Disagreements are a great opportunity for two parties to learn, they just need good folks willing to listen. Take care.

Damn, we have a rivalry with Costa Rica? I didn’t know that, usually I ignore their opinions lol They remind me of a lot like those tiny barking chihuahuas

@@rokosbasilisk913Costa Rica Rica is definitely the chihuahua because how smaller the country is compared to Guatemala and the fact that Guatemala has 3 times the population of Costa Rica AND Chihuahua and Costa Rica starts with the letter 'C' just like in spanish.

Specially Nicaragua and El Salvador.

El Salvador is another country on the rise. They will be debt free by 2026. Their economy is growing and it is the safest country in the western hemisphere.

Nah

​@@Trancymindit's impossible that El Salvador finished his debt by 2026 because right now they're the most in debt county of the whole Central America with more than 70% of their GDP

Honestly as a Guatemalan I’m conflicted. I wish Belice the best and if that means being independent then good for them. Being together?? I don’t like that idea either since Guatemala is just as corrupt. It would be nice but it’s hard to choose. Should Guatemala eliminate its own corruption. MAYBE, but I digress. Lots of nuances to take into account

He doesn’t want Belize to join Guatemala 😂. He wants Belize to join Central America if it becomes a country. I’m Guatemalan and there’s no point in having Belize a a territory if the state can’t even handle itself. Only the federation could help Belize.

Not separatism, but the regional elites wanted their own fiefdom to rule autocratically without the government intervening

Conservatives vs liberals was the main problem. Well the conservative elites like the clan of aycinena or something like that

That's not an explanation.

The reason is because they often forgot Costa Rica existed, it was the most far away part of the major cities of the Capitanía General and it’s products were also produced by other territories.

exan a los mas ricos XD

It's not that we're not interested, we've just worked out our crime and corruption a little bit more, mind you, just a little, not as much as one would like. The problem is you guys have way to rich rich people, and they've been screwing the poor for centuries now, forcing them to migrate to the US and the be turned back after being forced into criminal life by US racist policies (you know the ones that feed their prison system full of POC), and now you guys up north have to deal with a lot of violent street gangs, but no, we too dream of a United Central America... Que vivan los catrachos, chapines, pinoleros, ticos y salvadoreños! Algún día volveremos a cantar juntos como hermanos! (Y también los panameños, aunque ellos tienden a verse más sureños 😉)

Dude, the crime isn't that bad nowadays. Nicaragua is pretty safe as long as you avoid politics and pissing off the dictator and crime in el Salvador is down quite a lot too. Guatemala and Honduras also have large areas that are safe (and yes, touristy).

Dude El Salvador is nowadays safer than the US 😂

I’ve been to Guatemala so many times it’s not that bad unless you catch attention and not go out like the locals, you’ll be fine but most people go to the touristic destinations anyways which I didn’t go because I went with my family

Nope

Its North America dude. Dont let us Americans categorize you differently because of a sense of superiority.

@@FelixMCFrosty Honduras is in Central America. And it should be proud to be so. North America is Canada, Mexico and the U.S.

​@@FelixMCFrostywe like to be called central americans

@@tentalz1590 w.e floats your boat 👍

El Salvador crime rates is lower than Costa Ricas.

Yeah, but they still need to each them in terms of economy, health, and democracy

@@Trancymind And I'm not sure about if that is real, I now they president's works for the security but the Salvatruchas are in El Salvador yet, so it could vary so much

Perdón compatriota si es que usted realmente lo es, pero ningún costarricense y recalcó."ninguno" piensa igual que usted, lo cual me hace reflexionar si usted es lo que dice. Respetamos a nuestros hermanos centroameicanis, les admiramos un par de cosas, pero el despotismo de sus gobernantes.no es una de ellos, ni el comunismo de la regente Hondureña, ni el totalitarismo del déspota Nicaragüense, ni la dictadura de derecha del.señor Bukele lo cual estamos desde todo punto de vista obligados a respetar porque él gobierna El Salvador como El Salvador quiere ser gobernado y si ese es el estilo que al hermano Pueblo le gusta, entonces este debe ser respetado, más no imitado. Los Ticos como Pueblo en extremo educado sabemos de la maxima: ",...Los Pueblos que no recuerdan su pasado están co dejados a repetir sus mismis errores eternamente,..." y con esto invitamos a nuestros hermanos a recordar la época de su expresidente "Martinez", una copia al carbon (respetando sus diferencias), el destino final de tal exgobernante debería llamarlos a reflexión. Eso sin tomar en cuenta que las acciones del señor Bukele son muy eficaces para atacar los efectos de la tremenda cto.i salidas en dicho país, pero y las causas de esa criminalidad, las acciones de su Gobierno también han cubierto este tópico? Entonces quizás deberíamos ser.mas cautelosos a la hora de ensalzar a quien aún no termina su labor, motivos todos ellos por los que los Ticos somos por demás recelosos de una hipotética e irrealizable Unión Centroamericana a la cual les insentivamos si es que así lo desean los demás países, pero en este aspecto preferimos "ver los toros desde la barrera", y dándonos golpes de pecho les recordamos a todos ustedes: ",...es mejor cada uno en su casa y Dios en la de todos,..."🇨🇷🕊 Sorry compatriot if you really are, but no Costa Rican and he stressed "none" thinks like you, which makes me reflect if you are what you say. We respect our Central American brothers, we admire them for a couple of things, but the despotism of their rulers is not one of them, nor is the communism of the Honduran ruler, nor the totalitarianism of the Nicaraguan despot, nor the right-wing dictatorship of Mr. Bukele. which we are from every point of view obliged to respect because he governs El Salvador as El Salvador wants to be governed and if that is the style that brother Pueblo likes, then it must be respected, but not imitated. We Ticos, as an extremely educated People, know the maxim: ",... Peoples who do not remember their past are doomed to repeat their same mistakes forever,..." and with this we invite our brothers to remember the time of their former president "Martinez", a carbon copy (respecting their differences), the final fate of such a former ruler should call them to reflection. This without taking into account that Mr. Bukele's actions are very effective in attacking the effects of the tremendous crime in that country, but what about the causes of this crime? Have his government's actions also covered this topic? So perhaps we should be more cautious when it comes to extolling those who have not yet finished their work; All of them are reasons why we Ticos are extremely suspicious of a hypothetical and unrealizable Central American Union to which we encourage them if the other countries so wish, but in this aspect we prefer to "see the bulls from the sidelines", and giving ourselves beating our chests we remind all of you: ",... each one is better in his house and God in everyone's,..."🇨🇷🕊 ​

@@alvaroleandrohernandezalva3149 Si lo soy mira, yo sé que tenemos ahorita nuestros problemas con el arias "Diablo" en estos momentos y que Bukele ha hecho una política de seguridad efectiva, pero reselo que sea tan populista, ya que así empezó Chávez en Venezuela y mira ahora como está, pero al vivir en un país de centro (Ideogía centro) lo hace cuestionar a uno muchas prácticas de muchos dirigentes mundiales, a mi parecer. Y yo respeto a nuestro hermanos centroamericanos, pero siento que muchos de ellos tendrían que empezar a tomar las riendas de sus países

Central America doesn’t have to entice costs rica or Panama in anything. As an example, just because a large nation like Mexico has its problems, some states worse than others, doesn’t mean they should all separate and fix their problems on their own. Same in the in the United States. Some states are more poor and more violent than others, but in a Federation, the free market gives people a chance to choose where they live and what industry they want to work in. Also GDP growth would increase significantly as there are no borders and no need to exchange currencies. Even without Costa Rica and Panama, Centralamerica would still benefit as one country. Costa Rica Panama and Mexico as their main trading partners.

@@katjerouac I see what you mean, and I agree as well. The federation would help to stabilize the region, and as one nation each Central American nation can specialize according to their comparative advantage. Personally, as a Central American nationalist I would like to see Costa Rica as part of the nation for historical reasons. I'm indifferent towards Panama but they would be welcome to join if they were to ever petition to join(highly doubtful until the federation begins to see success).

Not true. Central America was ours. Then we collapsed.

@@ARES-zf5fz Don't be a follower be a student.

Yeah, more commonly here refered to as "Relative independence" from spain (1821), and then "Absolute independence" from spain, mexico, and any other foreign country (1823).

​@@ARES-zf5fzMexico never really controlled Central America. Do some research and see that we were mostly already independent with only minor influence from Mexico. I don't see Mexico fixing its cartel problem anytime soon and the Central American/Mexican cultures are fairly different so I'd like to see Central America separate from Mexico.

@@jamesmuller4886 Yes to whatever that was supposed to mean

You were lucky they let you go. And a bunch of comments are talking about how happy they would be with a merger 😂 they need to take a trip like yours and come back and say what they think 😂

@@akanne1 yeah, sux. no matter how much the region is organized, place is gonna be a mess as long as corruption blows pipes

True

We are so apart on what Mexico is, and would be embarrassed to be called Mexican.

@@9erempire549Mexico is only becoming more powerful right now it’s the corruption and blood running through the country

Two years read the history,but they regret to be with crazy Iturbide a d divide like it's know

Well yeah, y’all would benefit the most. Hondustas is big but they never do anything productive.