The long experience of the author in Central America, allow him to draw a short sight of the isthmus economic and social reality, confronted to terrestrial and maritime border debate, that they decrease the efforts of integration.El autor, gracias a su experiencia pasada en América Central, esboza brevemente la realidad económica y social del istmo, confrontado a disputas fronterizas marítimas y terrestres que merman los esfuerzos de integración.