| Sumario: | In 2014 the Central American Northern Triangle countries signed an economic and security integration treaty, the Alliance for Prosperity (ALPRO). This initiative was organized with the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and under US government supervision. The Alliance propose several reforms in different dimensions including the production of energy, transports, customs and taxes, in the educational and labor sector, as well as in judicial system, police and the army in order to modernize these institutions. All the measures are –supposedly- oriented to diminish violence, corruption, the inefficient public institutions and the high levels of poverty within the region. From the US government perspective, the ALPRO is considered an expansion of the “successful” Colombia Plan. The main critics to the ALPRO are focused in the economic dynamics that tend to impose, the institutional “modernization” and the securitization within the frame of the war on drugs; all necessary steps to guarantee the function of free market. This kind of integration tends to benefit the privileged minority, instead of leading to changes to achieve more social justice. It also consolidates the historical pattern of dependency in the relations between Central America and the US, reinforcing the role of local elites.
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