Honduras

SIECA was set up by the General Treaty of Central America Economic Integration, signed by the Managua City, Nicaragua, on December 13, 1960. In conformity with this instrument, SIECA is a juridical person with its headquarters in the city of Guatemala, Republic of Guatemala.In consonance with Article 28 of the Tegucigalpa protocol, in regards to the Charter of the Central American States (ODECA), signed by the presidents of Central America on December 13, 1991, SIECA is the Secretariat that will deal with the economic topics of the Central American Integration System (CAIS) that was set up through this instrument. In accordance with what was established in the instrument of reference, SIECA keeps its juridical personality, attributes and functions granted by the General Treaty.Finally, the protocol related to the General Central America Economic Integration, known as Protocol of Guatemala, signed on October 29, 1993, institutionalizes the Economic Integration Subsystem and establishes in Article 43 that the Secretariat of the Central America Economic Integration (SIECA) is the technical and administrative organ of the process of Central American Economic Integration, of the organs that do not have a specific Secretariat and of the Executive Committee of Economic Integration (CEIE), it also stipulates that this organ has juridical personality of international right and that corresponds, and serves as a link of the actions of the other Secretariats of the Economic Subsystem, the coordination with the General Secretariat of the Central American Integration System in conformity with what has been established in Article 28 of Tegucigalpa Protocol and in exercise of the operational autonomy.

The Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) was set up under Resolution 106 (VI) passed by the Economic and Social Council on February 25, 1948 and started off that same year. In its Resolution 1984/67 dated July 27, 1984, the council voted the Commission be renamed Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
CEPAL is one of the UN’s five regional commissions and it’s headquartered in Santiago de Chile. It was founded with a view to help in Latin America’s economic development, in the coordination of actions aimed at promoting and buttressing that development among the member countries and the rest of the world. Later on, it scope embraced Caribbean nations and a new objective to foster social development was added to its agenda.
CEPAL counts on two sub-regional headquarters: one for Central America based in Mexico, D.F. and a second one for the Caribbean in Port of Spain, established on June 1951 and December 1996 respectively. Moreover, the organization has national offices in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Montevideo and Bogota, plus a liaison office in Washington, D.C.