Salvadoran Foreign Ministry highlights attraction of investments for 161 million dollars 

The Ministry highlighted the generation of $8.5 million in overseas sales of food products, beverages, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textiles and clothing, information technologies, agribusiness, and handicrafts.

The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Adriana Mira, highlighted that thanks to commercial promotion, investment attraction, and tourism promotion, investments of US$161 million were achieved in the period 2019-2023.

Mira also highlighted other achievements such as the generation of $8.5 million in overseas sales of food products, beverages, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textiles and clothing, information technologies, agribusiness, and handicrafts.

In the presentation of the main achievements in trade and economic matters during the period 2019-2023, the Vice Minister pointed out that “the Foreign Ministry joins as one more actor to promote national products in other countries to attract foreign investment to El Salvador from an institutional and emblematic project such as economic diplomacy.”

The public official also listed the achievements of the Foreign Ministry in the last four years:

• 1,000 strategic contacts
• 142 foreign missions attended in the country;
• 337 events for the economic promotion of El Salvador in the world;
• 45 economic agreements in the areas of aviation, maritime port, investment, tourism, and innovation;
• More than 700 companies trained

Mira also highlighted the coordinated work with government institutions such as the Secretary of Commerce and Investment; the Ministries of Agriculture, Economy, and Tourism; Invest, the National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises (Conamype), and the Salvadoran Coffee Institute (ISC).