| Latin america incorporating US dollar { October 12 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15218365http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15218365
World El Salvador Migration Creates Labor Shortage by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
Morning Edition, October 12, 2007
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Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: Still, because El Salvador dollarized its economy in 2001, Gomez earns about double what he would make back home in the more valuable U.S. currency.
Mr. GOMEZ (translated): The dollar is worth something in Honduras. We come here because the dollar is close. We don't need to go so far away. We see this as a state of the United States.
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: There is a saying in El Salvador: The United States is the dream of Salvadorans, but Salvador is the dream of the rest of Central America.
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