Revista Centroamericana de Administración Pública

The Central American region is navigating between challenges and opportunities, a confluence marked by a complex matrix of lags and vulnerabilities that contributed to the lost decade of the 1980s and that persist with new nuances in an increasingly complex context.
With the long-awaited arrival of the Esquipulas Peace Accords in 1987, the arrival of social hope derived from a democratic era, whose dawn augured the capacity to channel differences through dialogue, negotiation and joint construction to face structural backwardness and a political agenda overflowing with social needs. However, this prognosis will not last long, since the irruption of a process of neoliberal reforms in the early nineties of the last century and an incremental insertion into the global economy, which in the early nineties and an incremental insertion into the global economy heralded the rise of open regionalism.