Northern Triangle Security and Economic Opportunity Task Force
																
							May 5, 2017
				 
				Building a Better Future
							
																			By 
																John Negroponte, Eduardo Stein, Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila, and Luis Cosenza												
		
				
					Read the Publication To many Americans, the difficult issues facing Central America’s Northern Triangle—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—may seem distant. But the future of the United States is tied to these countries as some of our closest neighbors. Geography alone demonstrates that their stability and prosperity is critical to our national interest.